Left Niagara Falls' bumpy pot holed streets on a beautiful morn after a hearty breakfast in the motel parking lot. You can't believe the looks we got from the natives walking by going to work!
The streets quickly changed to rural quiet roads with a wide shoulder. We pedaled through an Indian reservation with a lacrosse school. Instead of yards having basketball hoops they all had lacrosse goals. It is an American Indian Game!
The rest of the day we went through small Western NY towns. Many of them along the Erie Canal. Lockport had a lock and a museum that was very interesting. The canal is not used anymore for commercial vehicles just recreation. There is a trail that is the old tow path but it is not paved so not so good for our skinny tire bikes! The ride was fast and fairly flat all the way into Brockport. We were starved so asked a local for a place for a beer and lunch. The place we ended up had a different name but was one of my old college hangouts. Good old Higgens!
After some good conversation with the bartender and some locals, two of us got a haircut, and then I took some of the riders on a tour of the SUNY Brockport campus. No students around so we rode all the sidewalks. I hardly recognized the place! I think I liked it when it was smaller. A
lot of changes in 45 years.
We rode about 70 miles today. All of the WOWs rode all of the miles. We are off to Rochester for brunch tomorrow planned by the Woman Tours company. That is their home office- and it is not too far from where I used to live. I wonder how much that has changed?
Mañana. Donna
Here we are at Higgens!,
Sent from Bev's iPad
The streets quickly changed to rural quiet roads with a wide shoulder. We pedaled through an Indian reservation with a lacrosse school. Instead of yards having basketball hoops they all had lacrosse goals. It is an American Indian Game!
The rest of the day we went through small Western NY towns. Many of them along the Erie Canal. Lockport had a lock and a museum that was very interesting. The canal is not used anymore for commercial vehicles just recreation. There is a trail that is the old tow path but it is not paved so not so good for our skinny tire bikes! The ride was fast and fairly flat all the way into Brockport. We were starved so asked a local for a place for a beer and lunch. The place we ended up had a different name but was one of my old college hangouts. Good old Higgens!
After some good conversation with the bartender and some locals, two of us got a haircut, and then I took some of the riders on a tour of the SUNY Brockport campus. No students around so we rode all the sidewalks. I hardly recognized the place! I think I liked it when it was smaller. A
lot of changes in 45 years.
We rode about 70 miles today. All of the WOWs rode all of the miles. We are off to Rochester for brunch tomorrow planned by the Woman Tours company. That is their home office- and it is not too far from where I used to live. I wonder how much that has changed?
Mañana. Donna
Here we are at Higgens!,
Sent from Bev's iPad
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