It's a Beautiful Day in the neighborhood

Today was another beautiful day of riding. We have been so lucky on our trip, only two days with measurable amounts of rain, yesterday being one of those rain days. We also left the hotel an hour later this morning which meant we got to sleep in a hour longer!

The route today took us through Waterloo the birthplace of Memorial Day, in 1866. As we cycled through Waterloo we came upon a town center where there was a park, which was located on "Memorial Day Drive", with a Korean Veterans Memorial. The message was "Freedom is not Free". That still holds true today.

After the sag stop we cycled to the Erie Canal Park where we stopped to take a look at the Canal. I have never been this far north in New York, so it's great to see sights that I have never seen before. Definitely another benefit of the trip!

We had good roads today with wide shoulders for most of the ride or country roads where we could take our time and meander our way to the hotel in Syracuse. We did encounter hills, but nothing to steep like the day we headed into Wooster, OH. The clouds rolled in to keep us from getting too hot; just glad they didn't turn into rain clouds.

The ride was 68 miles which took me 4 hours and 38 minutes to finish at an average speed of 14.9 mph. The odometer on my bike computer now reads 3,124 miles.

The "Snake Report" is another big fat ZERO, nothing to report...I am beginning to think there are no snakes in the state of New York.