Boonville, New York - Clearly, they were asking for that kind of subject line when they named this town.
Upstate New York is terrific - uncrowded, densely wooded, picturesque, and not overly touristy. At least not this bit, which is kind of sandwiched between the Finger Lakes and the Adirondacks. It's been great riding, though, and the temperature has dropped a bit since yesterday (though the humidity hasn't.)
The Boonville library has a USB port, so here are a few more pix. They keep you to 1/2 hour, so I can't give a full complement, but here are a few.
Illinois - Andy Warhol meets Christo? No, just some of the decor outside a Campbell's soup factory in Illinois.
Fremont, Ohio - Answering the eternal question, who's buried in Hayes' tomb? (Speaking of caretaker presidents, I also got to ride a scintillating stretch of the Herbert Hoover Highway in Iowa.)
Perry, NY - The upper right of the image is self-explanatory. The lower left is a giant pile of wrecked sailboats that were ripped from their respective docks during torrential rainfall the previous night.
Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio - Located on lake Erie, this was about the tackiest tourist town this side of Hampton Beach. But it did harbor at least one piece of history, as evidenced by this sign.
Upstate New York is terrific - uncrowded, densely wooded, picturesque, and not overly touristy. At least not this bit, which is kind of sandwiched between the Finger Lakes and the Adirondacks. It's been great riding, though, and the temperature has dropped a bit since yesterday (though the humidity hasn't.)
The Boonville library has a USB port, so here are a few more pix. They keep you to 1/2 hour, so I can't give a full complement, but here are a few.
Illinois - Andy Warhol meets Christo? No, just some of the decor outside a Campbell's soup factory in Illinois.
Fremont, Ohio - Answering the eternal question, who's buried in Hayes' tomb? (Speaking of caretaker presidents, I also got to ride a scintillating stretch of the Herbert Hoover Highway in Iowa.) Perry, NY - The upper right of the image is self-explanatory. The lower left is a giant pile of wrecked sailboats that were ripped from their respective docks during torrential rainfall the previous night.
Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio - Located on lake Erie, this was about the tackiest tourist town this side of Hampton Beach. But it did harbor at least one piece of history, as evidenced by this sign.
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I'm Tom Moran, a bicyclist from Fairbanks, Alaska. I'm spending the summer of 2006 riding from Anacortes, Wash., to Bar Harbor, Maine.
My goodness - 100 miles in 100 degrees!! Your blog inspires us to try to figure out one more bike adventure before we settle irretrievably into our dotage!
We're glad the wheel problem is over once and for all. A properly built wheel should NEVER lose spokes.
Life here in Pennsylvania seems so pedestrian compared to fast-paced Fairbanks! But, Ben Lomond beckons!!
You can also relax and be confident that Mary is in good spirits, having recently received two - count em, two! - bottles of lychee liqueur!
Have a great ride!!
Love from the (former) QIR's
There is also a Boonville, Indiana, and that one reflects its name very well. It sounds even more like the "boonies" when you say it with a Southern accent. We passed through it every day the summer I worked down at the Lincoln Amphitheatre, and in fact that was where the hospital they took us to after the car accident was . . .
The heat wave that we just experienced this weekend in Minnesota is supposed to be hitting the East Coast in the next couple days, so watch out for the temps to go up again.