Buffalo to Westfield, NY (and some before)
Today's ride was a pretty nice ride, despite the fact that it started out cold, windy and rainy. The highlight of the day for me was that I was riding my bike again, as my bike was put out of commission in a minor bike accident where no one was hurt, except for my bike's rear derailer hanger, from Corning to Houghton. The awesome mechanics at Campus Bike Shop in Buffalo, NY told me that the rear derailer hangers on our bikes are exclusively available from bike shops of Specialized, the bike company that made our bikes, but somehow on the spot they made a new rear derailer hanger for me that could last me all the way to Seattle, and only charged me $25 for it. (This is my plug for the Campus Bike Shope in Buffalo, NY. They know what they are doing.)
Anyways, due to the miserable weather conditions, there were many complaints about the great state of New York as we rolled out of Buffalo, and after making good time, my group decided that instead of having a trailer lunch (of bagels and peanut butter, like we have been having for the last week) we would stop at a dinner. Our first attempt failed because the pizzeria we went to was take out only, and we did not feel like eating outside. A few people were freezing outdoors, so stopping outside was of great concern. We find out about the pizzeria when we met the owner at a grocery store, and the guy gave Jeff a free T-shirt. My group ended up stopping at Tom's Family Diner, but basically all the groups found diners in the area, and stopped to eat hot lunches indoors. Chase, the van driver for the day had a very nice nap.
After lunch the weather cleared up and it ended up being a very beautiful day. Today there were much fewer flats than yesterday (yesterday's total was 36 flats in one day for 30 people). Westfield is a very small place, but gorgeous. Most of us went swimming in Lake Erie, which is beautiful, but dirty (we still swam in it). Dinner was nice, and the YWCA we are staying in is very accomadating, (it also has 5 rooms, with a total of about 9 beds, each of which were fought over). We also had an inner tube patching party today, as we have run out spare tubes, checking each with a small bowl of water to prevent faulty tires giving flats in the future. Other that that, there is nothing more that I can think of to write.
-Jesse Dong
Anyways, due to the miserable weather conditions, there were many complaints about the great state of New York as we rolled out of Buffalo, and after making good time, my group decided that instead of having a trailer lunch (of bagels and peanut butter, like we have been having for the last week) we would stop at a dinner. Our first attempt failed because the pizzeria we went to was take out only, and we did not feel like eating outside. A few people were freezing outdoors, so stopping outside was of great concern. We find out about the pizzeria when we met the owner at a grocery store, and the guy gave Jeff a free T-shirt. My group ended up stopping at Tom's Family Diner, but basically all the groups found diners in the area, and stopped to eat hot lunches indoors. Chase, the van driver for the day had a very nice nap.
After lunch the weather cleared up and it ended up being a very beautiful day. Today there were much fewer flats than yesterday (yesterday's total was 36 flats in one day for 30 people). Westfield is a very small place, but gorgeous. Most of us went swimming in Lake Erie, which is beautiful, but dirty (we still swam in it). Dinner was nice, and the YWCA we are staying in is very accomadating, (it also has 5 rooms, with a total of about 9 beds, each of which were fought over). We also had an inner tube patching party today, as we have run out spare tubes, checking each with a small bowl of water to prevent faulty tires giving flats in the future. Other that that, there is nothing more that I can think of to write.
-Jesse Dong
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