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As what I call "The Year of the Bike" comes to an end and I am tying up loose ends I finally place fingers to keyboard to write my personal thoughts on THE...
1 Dec 27, 2005
10:40 pm

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This will be my last report. I have encouraged the other five members to also write summaries, so hopefully you will be getting other points of view. These...
1 Jul 5, 2005
9:58 pm

Eric
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First of all, thanks to Eric (and sometimes Bonnie) for all the mapping and for keeping you all informed of our adventure. Thanks, too, to all five of my ...
1 Jul 4, 2005
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I guess we were all hoping that the last day would be a nice easy cruise to the sea under sunny skies and a cool breeze. But the Fates decided differently for...
1 Jul 3, 2005
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Eric
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By the end of the ride we will have cycled over 3,750 miles, and in retrospect, there is not a lot of the routing I would change. However, today's route would...
1 Jul 1, 2005
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We slept in Rumford, eat breakfast in Mexico, lunch in Farmington and supper in Skowhegan. It seems that the remaining balance of the tour is quickly slipping ...
1 Jun 30, 2005
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Eric
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Correction! It was Gail and Susie who stayed in the motel in Swanton. Bonnie camped like usual. These last few days were supposed to be easy. I cut them back...
1 Jun 29, 2005
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Eric
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Yes you read the above correctly. We are in Maine. Although we are still planning reach the water, at this point we can all say that we biked from California...
1 Jun 29, 2005
9:19 pm

Eric
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It was just another hot, muggy and hilly day in Vermont. Oh, did I say hot. All the locals have been telling us how unusual this weather is for this time of...
1 Jun 27, 2005
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Eric
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This is it; the final leg of the trip. And in typical fashion a day that was supposed to be easy, turn out to be exhausting. It was hot, in the high nineties....
1 Jun 26, 2005
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Today we rode 86 miles from Watertown, NY, to Morrisburg, Ontario. Ken deftly led us out of town as we cycled toward our first goal, Ogdensburg (56 miles)....
1 Jun 24, 2005
10:17 pm

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I have not posted anything in the last two days, because Tuesday and Wednesday were lay over days for me. I spent both days with family and friends I did bike...
1 Jun 24, 2005
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Eric
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We travelled 68 miles from Oswego to Watertown, NY. It was a beautiful sunny day right from the start with comfortable temperatures and a hint of a tailwind....
1 Jun 21, 2005
2:32 pm

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For those that are keeping count, today I completed my third fully loaded century, 103 miles. The mild tailwinds helped, but I think the incentive of making it...
1 Jun 21, 2005
2:17 pm

Eric
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Susie and Gail did a fine job of getting us out of the "maze" of Greece and Rochester where bridges were our nemesis. After travelling for afew miles on a...
1 Jun 21, 2005
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I have a very short time to get out our news so please excuse any typos, etc. First of all I need to extinguish those rumors that have been flying around. No,...
1 Jun 21, 2005
2:09 pm

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While the promised sunshine never materialised, today's ride went quite well. It started with a substantial complimentary breakfast at the Gananoque Inn. The...
1 Jun 20, 2005
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Eric
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I am typing this from the pub at the Ganaoque Inn. But before you jump to conclusions, it is because the hotel's Wi-Fi signal does not reach my room. Their...
1 Jun 19, 2005
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Eric
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If my last two reports are a bit confusing I just realized that for some reason Yahoo posted them out of order. Oh well! Because I was a bit ahead of the...
1 Jun 18, 2005
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Eric
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It was blissful to sleep in till 8:00 am, the only time I have been up earlier than Gail who is usually up at the crack of dawn. We all breakfasted at Denny's...
1 Jun 18, 2005
1:13 am

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We miss you, Eric. On the other hand, now that we've heard about that 100+ mile day, maybe we don't miss you SO much. Oops, forgot to tell you that we ended...
1 Jun 18, 2005
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First of all, we miss Eric and will be nicer when we reunite! Bonnie and Ken decided they needed another night in the great outdoors the evening of June 14...
1 Jun 18, 2005
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For the next few days, the daily reports will be my personal account, as I have split off from the group for a short period of time. The group decided to...
1 Jun 18, 2005
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Eric
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Toronto has a great system of bake paths that let you pass right through downtown and out the other side. So I had breakfast near Ontario Place on the lake,...
1 Jun 17, 2005
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Eric
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It was a relatively nice and easy ride to London, Ontario. Rain threaten several times, but held off until after at least three of us were tucked away neatly...
1 Jun 15, 2005
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Today was a day of highs and lows. We did get rained on for most of the afternoon, but either it was a warm rain, or we are just getting used to it, because...
1 Jun 14, 2005
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And yet another hot and muggy Michigan day! The locals are claiming that this is an unusual June, and that this is August weather. Oh joy! Fortunately it was...
1 Jun 13, 2005
1:44 am

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Another hot and muggy day in Michigan, but at least we re-grouped to a certain extent. We are now down to two groups instead of four. Bonnie, Ken, Martin and...
1 Jun 12, 2005
1:42 am

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Ken King would like to announce the birth of his fourth grandchild, a boy named Peter Ford Watson, born to Ken's daughter Julie and her husband David on June...
1 Jun 11, 2005
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Eric
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I want to thank my daughter Noelle and son-in-law Craig for their generous hospitality while we visited Chicago. I had called ahead and requested everyone's...
1 Jun 11, 2005
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