Day 3 - Cape Vincent to Picton...67 miles...245 total so far

Another great riding day today - lots of sun...very few hills...a little wind in our faces. Shown is the campsite we left this morning in Cape Vincent.

Christoph, Ken and Edmund are enjoying the ferry ride from Cape Vincent to Wolfe Island.

So far no flats (are you happy, Carlo ?). We ended up at a nice camp site near Sandbanks Provincial Park (Martin's River Resort). They have a beautiful beach within walking distance. For dinner we had burgers - just no better choices near the camp site. I will update again tomorrow (son Christoph: haver a safe trip back from Venezuela tomorrow - I will be thinking of you) - Cheers...

Day 2 - Oswego to Cape Vincent - not able to post

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Day 2 - Oswego to Cape Vincent - 84 miles ...

Day One - Honeoye Falls / Macedon to Oswego, NY

It could not have ended any better...

We ended up at our warmshowers.org hosts Dave and LeeAnn Bauer just East of the city of Oswego - just before 6 pm (seen on the picture above) - we are being absolutely pampered by them...from champagne for welcome, great dinner with home made cheese cake and red wine, beside the wonderful warm shower, laundry service and our own bedrooms...how can you top that...Thank You, Bauer's !!!

So, the ride went very well. We were able to avoid some bad weather, but ended up riding in pouring rain for the last 4 miles. Christoph and Edmund started at 5:30 am and met up with Kathy and Ken in Macedon a couple of hours later. For the Napp's, the trip was about 100 miles (about 160 km) - the Nawrocki's rode for little over 75 miles. Christoph and Ken trailed the trailer for the entire distance (Thanks !!) - tomorrow is Edmund's turn...(for one trailer)

Our first short break was at Pultneyville (the other pic) , where we still looked reasonably fresh...

Tomorrow we are heading to Cape Vincent - not sure where we will stay, yet - nothing will be as fancy as our first night.

One day to go...

13 hours to go before we take off...
Christoph (shown on the left) arrived last night in Rochester - on time. Today we finalized the packing - stopped by at Nawrocki's to pick up some bags...checked out the road between our house and Nawrocki's house to make sure we find our way tomorrow.
We test rode our fully loaded bikes around the HF neighborhood - Christoph was able to try to ride with the trailer - he liked it ;o) .
Oh yeah - we caught a chipmonk this morning and set it free at Nawrocki's house...

4th of July - Happy Birthday America...5 days to start the trip

What a beautiful weekend we have in Rochester...I am working on the preps for the trip. I installed the new SPD (clip on) pedals on my bike - now I need to practice using them without falling over every time I stop.
A really big Thank You to the Stewart, Middleton, Lamendola and Napp families for their sponsorships !!!
Ken and Kathy have been busy securing places for us to stay - we are almost all set all the way to Toronto - through www.warmshowers.org and a friend of Ken's, it looks like we won't have to pitch a tent until after Toronto (at best). Kathy just discovered that her bicycle frame was cracked - but they were able to replace it and are setting it up for the trip.
Christoph will cross the Atlantic (by plane) to join me on Wednesday - Thursday we do last minute stuff and on Friday early in the morning we head to Macedon, NY to join Ken and Kathy...and then off to Oswego, NY.

Have a great weekend and Happy 4th of July...