Have fun, there are a lot of nice lakes along that way. Once you get to Albany, or before that at Amsterdam, you should turn left and pedal through the Adirondacks. There are some gorgeous sights. My mom and sister live near Syracuse and if you're in need let me know and I will get you in touch with them.


I have not done any riding lately but I a five day canoe trip with my in-law in 3.5 days last weekend. It was about 55 km of paddling and if you only did the portages in one trip each it was about 8 km hiking, the longest portage was about 2.5km. It made me miss backpacking and hiking, something my wife doesn't enjoy now a days as she did when she was younger. It was also nice to see what I was capable of hiking with a loaded pack, I think I surprised a few people with my dumb ability to haul a lot of crap on my back. It was a nice thing to see that most of the people we saw doing the trip were teenagers from summer camps. Meanwhile we were a group with five 30 somethings, a 35 year-old (yo) disabled guy, a 62 yo with an artificial hip, a 68 yo, a 1 yo, and a 5 yo doing a 5 day trip in three and a half days.

Now that we are home we have to start packing since we pick up our moving truck in two weeks for our move across the Georgia Strait to Nanaimo. My former cycle commute will be replaced with a kayak paddle across the harbor.

[MENTION=152773]noglider[/MENTION] Nice new photo, handsome looking fellow.