nyc -> montreal bike ride [53c7b98d]
1. Day 1: NYC -> Red Mills
1. Day 1: NYC -> Red Mills
- Private property, no public lands
2. Day 2: Red Mills -> Albany
2. Day 2: Red Mills -> Albany
- Pretty, the rail trail is nice and serparted
- Upstate new york has all these weird martyr things, very similar to iraqi shia ones
- Catksills and aderondacks, not sure what else is there, small villages are very strange
3. Day 3: Albany -> Ticonderoga
3. Day 3: Albany -> Ticonderoga
- Worse part of the ride, over 100 miles and between Whitehall and Ticonderoga is shitty climbing, followed by hills, last of the aderondacks
- Route 4 is bad, between Compton and Whitehall is sketchy, but the side roads are sooo hilly, so take your pick
- Trail splits here, one path to Buffalo
- Met some guys that came from Buffalo to Albany
- Fort edward bike shop, very good
4. Day 4: Ticonderoga -> Burlington
4. Day 4: Ticonderoga -> Burlington
- Boat is cool, Vermont drivers are better, lots of unpaved roads
- People were continually curious about where I was riding to and where I had ridden from
- Lots of places where a flat could've caused things to go south
- No veteran posters in vermont either
- Lots of tiny little towns where they say they were founded in 1776, very young country
5. Day 5: Burlington -> Montreal
5. Day 5: Burlington -> Montreal
- Very flat, super quick zoom zoom, not much to discuss, very pretty
- St Jean Richilieu is okay but not super interesting
- Montreal is a very pretty city, it's close to america but definitely not american
- Rue Ontario is really a shitshow up north
- Art museum was very good
6. Day 6: Montreal -> St Albans
6. Day 6: Montreal -> St Albans
- Same as before, vermonter takes bikes, a decent enough situation