Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Ride Day 140
Today I left the sailing club at Pultneyville early to make it the 75 miles to Pulaski Ny where I am staying with a warm showers host. The ride today was perfect weather with a slight tailwind and cool temps most of the day. I enjoyed my stay at the sailing club. It was over the top of the warm shower hosts that I contacted to stay with to arrange for me to stay at the sailing club since they were out of town. They bent over backwards to help me out. I seriously appreciated that and loved the way it all worked out so smoothly. Back to the road today I started right off with the idea from other riders that the hills did not really start until after today. Look at the profile from today's ride and see if you can see any flat road on it. There was none. Up and down all day. The highest elevation gain was only about three hundred feet but there were sure a lot of them. It was a good workout for me as I head into the mountains tomorrow. I went over to the home of my hosts today and they were not home yet but had left me a note that I could take a shower and do laundry so that is what I did while I waited for them to get here. I always enjoy chatting with the warm shower hosts. They have all been great people with hearts of gold and today's were no exception to that. Kit made a great dinner and then she had to run off to play volleyball in a league she is in. I am catching up with my internet and then will hit the sack to rest up for tomorrow. I enjoyed seeing the fancy decorative old hand laid brick and stonework on all the barns and some homes today. Blow up some of the pics from today and look at the details if you want to see what I mean. 
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Ride Day 139
Today was my second shortest ride day of the entire ride at only 35 miles. I started near Rochester and rode through some beautiful areas of Rochester and then some really scary areas where I did not pull out my camera cause I did not want to get shot. Several of the hoods I rode through were clearly wearing gang colors, some red some blue but no red in a blue area etc. The neighborhoods looked pretty tough. I made it safely through them and hit the county roads up to the lake and rode along the lake for the second half of the ride. Now the lake houses were all ritzy or at least well to do by comparison to the hoods in town. The wind was blowing hard with herds of sheep on the water otherwise known as whitecaps or wind caused waves. I did not see any small boaters out the weather was so bad. It rained most of the morning and the wind kept blowing after the rain stopped. Now it is going on 6pm and the wind is starting to let up a bit. Tomorrow is predicted to be perfect weather. We shall see about that. I am staying at the sailing club tonight in Pultneyville NY through a hookup made through Warm Showers. I have not been using warm showers much because I like to camp but it looks like I will need it around New England because they charge so much for all the campgrounds and the weather has been wet. I did see more interesting barns though. The foundations and brick or stone work in some of them were fantastic. The mansard roof house in the pic below also had a nice stone foundation and that nice slate mansard roof with the fancy design in it. I spent the afternoon chatting with my hosts and continued chatting over a great dinner also. I will camp in the sailing club yard where there is a shower, bath and full kitchen as well. Then I will leave a bit later than usual tomorrow since I am planning another shorter day. I love all the nice people I meet on this ride.
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