Category: Bicycling

Since the library was on the way out of town, I decided to go in to use their internet connection to check e-mail and add more dots to my map. I had remembered Miki commenting that there were very few internet cafes here in the US, so she was having trouble accessing her e-mail. She…

I found the only bike shop in town the first thing in the morning. They had mostly used bikes and new low end mountain bikes, but then again Auburn wasn’t the type of city where people would buy $1000 bikes. I showed them where it looked like the fixed cup (drive side) of the bottom…

Last night’s hotel wasn’t the cheapest, but it was the only one in the area, and there were no camping options in the area. But three miles into today’s ride, I saw two no-name hotels next door to each other, which were probably cheaper. Oh well. A stop in Canandaigua offered the first taste of…

Today I headed east, breaking off from the Adventure Cycling route. So I was left to my own devices again for my routing. My goal was to go eastbound on US 20A. The hard part would be finding it from here in suburbia. Asking locals how to get there tends not to fare well for…

PA Highway 5 had become NY Highway 5 when crossing the state line. The route had also returned to the lakeshore somewhere in PA before the state line. Dunkirk didn’t seem like a nice place to stop for lunch, so I went 10 more miles to Silver Creek for lunch. It was a nice looking…

Some of you might be wondering if I missed a state between Ohio and New York. Yes, there is a small portion of Pennsylvania in between, but it is so small that I rode all the way through it today – in fact, both Conneaut, OH and Ripley, NY are on the PA state line.…

Due to the pleasant weather I was in no hurry to leave. Nancy had already left early for work, but John cooked breakfast. We finished eating by 8:30, but I wasn’t on the road until after 10. There’s just a few more suburbs on the lakeshore until Painesville. The route then goes away from the…

Unlike most of the tour, today’s riding was mostly fairly urban, starting in the far western and ending in the far eastern suburbs of Cleveland. But NO CORNFIELDS today – yippee! The first part of US 6 is a four laner near the lakefront. But surprisingly, the Cleveland-Sandusky road becomes a mostly residential tree-lined street…

(Apologies in advance to non-bike people for the excessive technical content for this update.) No more rivers to follow on this part of the route; therefore, I was in cornfields for most of the day. I had a minor problem with the cleat on my right shoe. The part of the cleat that restricts the…

I had a tough time getting up this morning. Maybe it was because I lost an hour with the time change. Or because I lost an additional hour staying up to watch “Highlander” on TV. The forecast was for another pleasant day, so at least I didn’t have to get up early to beat the…