Syracuse, NY to Herkimer, NY 71.08 miles Today was a pretty easy ride and to be honest there isn’t much I can say beyond it was a nice ride. Tiredness and the idea of finishing this ride I think has started to take over not just me but the group in general. For the first…

Canandaigua, NY to Syracuse, NY 69.94 miles Well I am glad we are out of Canandaigua not because its a bad town or anything. Its just I really have no idea how to pronounce the name when asked where we are or where we came from. For the first 30 miles or so I messed…

One day in 2017, Chris told me that he was going to do something he had always thought about. Knowing that he is a committed golfer, I naturally assumed that it had to have something to do with golf. As he has mentioned on the blog, he was already trying to play the top 100…

Then I saw this sign which I thought slightly odd in New York State and am no wiser now as to why it was there. I don’t think there are kangaroos in NY state. Next I saw a big tree which you might ignore most days of the week. When you actually look at it close…

Erie, PA to Hamburg, NY 80.68 miles Leaving the hotel the clouds looked ok so I left my waterproof jacket off. After half a mile I stopped to put my jacket on. In doing so I lost the group and thought I was on my own again destined to play catch up for an hour…

Rest Day – Erie, PA Today is our last rest day before Boston. As you know by now Don is in town, so we met up again this morning. He had another treat in store for me. Breakfast. We got in the car and headed a few miles out of town to a ‘real diner’,…

Hi All, Chris is inching ever closer to Boston, having arrived in Erie, Pa yesterday. Today is his last rest day on the tour. Tomorrow he leaves Erie and over the next 8 days will ride across Pennsylvania, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, and finally Massachusetts. On June 29th he will dip Irma’s wheels into the Atlantic…

Niles, OH to Erie, PA. 90.02 miles Well after our late night out (dinner at 7:30 pm) I slept like a log. The log awoke to a spectacular view of Lake Erie at 5:30 am (routines are hard to break). Finally I had to get up and find some coffee. I really wanted to post…

As I rode into Erie, and just before I reached the hotel, I saw a guy standing on the corner of the road. I knew that stance and then recognized the golf shirt – it was my friend Dr. Don Coughlan. I cant believe he drove down from Toronto just to say hi. He did…

Wooster, OH to Niles, OH 92.76 miles Another ride over 90 miles again today and for the first time started with some light rain. The rain was nothing much to write home about but just enough to make you slightly damp. All of us pondered the crucial question – do I wear my rain jacket…