Lake Erie

Today's Google Earth file: http://tomerceg.googlepages.com/HamburgNY.kmz

Greetings from New Yawk! We were treated to a truly spectacular day today. We followed the coastline of Lake Erie pretty much the entire day. There were vineyards on the right and beach houses on the left for large portions of the day. The skies were sunny and blue with a nice breeze blowing off the lake keeping things cool all day. It was a really delightful day of riding, with probably the best scenery since New Mexico.

We crossed into New York fairly early in the day. The road along the shore was built with bikers in mind. There is a full lane of shoulder pretty much the whole way up the coast.



Jim wanted to have lunch someone on the water. That wasn't really easy when lunchtime came around. We asked around a little and heard about a place, but finding it took a couple of attempts. In the end it was well worth the effort. We ate outdoors right on the beach, watched the waves crash and people relaxing on the sand, and listened to the music. This was probably our best lunch stop of the trip. Made extra special because we sniffed it out ourselves.


We tempted fate a little bit by doing a premature wheel-dip in the lake. It just seemed like a fun thing to do. Hopefully we haven't hacked-off the Karma forces. After so many weeks of wheat and corn I think we just wanted to celebrate being at the Great Lakes and starting the home stretch of the trip. A really wonderful day.