The hotel we were staying at only has coffee in the morning so we started with a short ride to Denny's. Amazing what fresh cooked breakfast tastes like. It is my b'day today and a couple of the team
Have decorated my helmet and flag and Barry arranged a cake for the group for after dinner. It was a fun day!
Somebody forgot to tell us that there would be hills today. It seems we were up and down all day. At mile 20 we went through Waterloo which, by presidential proclamation, is the birthplace of "Memorial Day" in the US. At mile 24 we are in Seneca Falls where, in 1848, there was the first meeting attended by 100 people demanding women be allowed more rights! There is small town after small town with some of them cute and affluent while others look to be on the verge of poverty. The only SAG of the day is at mile 38 at a small place that fits in to the latter category.
Leaving the SAG we go to the area of the Erie canal but even then we somehow are going up and down. You can see some of the old manufacturing places that would have used the canal to transport their goods but have long since fallen in to disrepair. The canal
Itself is well looked after in some places for tourist opportunities while left with no development in others. The clouds are starting to cover the sky and looks like rain but we manage to avoid it. It is really muggy with humidity as we ride the last 10 miles to the hotel. We have to avoid the busy roads into Syracuse as we see several signs to get there but we keep going in a different direction to finally get there. Once again we are in the hotel nice and dry and it is suppose to rain overnight.
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