Hannah has been talking about this our entire trip!

Start:  Holiday Inn Express, North East, Pennsylvania
End:  Holiday Inn Express, Hamburg, New York

Mileage:  76 miles or 72 miles (two different reports)
Weather:  Hot!  Humid!  Sticky!

States Conquered:  Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania
State Being Conquered:  New York (with a short ride through Niagara Falls, Canada)
States to be Conquered:  Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine

Particulars:  Hannah has been talking about a visit to Niagara Falls the entire trip.  I guess she enjoyed her previous visits, but this will be the first time we visit in WARM weather.  That will be nice.  Our previous experiences have been in rain and cool weather, standing at the brink of the falls in a coat and shivering.  This will be new, but I'm afraid that it will also mean CROWDS!  We're very spoiled when we travel off-season.

Once we were settled into our motel in Hamburg, Lowell, Hannah and I took off for Niagara Falls.  We took the bikes thinking it would be "fun" to ride our bikes along the parkway.  Probably not the greatese idea as the crowds filled the parkway and there really isn't a bike lane.  I was wishing that the visitors to Niagara Falls were all Dutch as they would have given us the right-of-way.  We had a sub-par dinner at the Edgewater Grill, but we had a GREAT view of the Falls.  After dinner we headed to the Maid of the Mist.  I always looks so fun when you watch the boat approach the Horseshoe Falls, but when you're actually experiencing it from the base of the Falls, you're being pounded by rain, mist and wind from the power and force of the water.  In fact, you really can't look at the Falls from the base.

A report from Joe Thompson:  Today we rode 72 miles from North East, PA to Hamburg, NY. The local weather guy on TV said this is the hottest day here in the last three years. It is HOT. Not to worry, Friday we should see rain and then cooler temperatures.

Interesting People Along the Way: