No overcast skies today. It is sunny from the get go.
Today I will ride the last 4 miles of the Erie Canal that my routes takes. I think it actually travels for over 300 more miles and many people are riding the entire length.
After taking a wrong turn that made me do some wild single track I got back on course.
Once off the trail, I headed north onto some nice country roads that eventually ended up on the shores of Lake Ontario. This was the fourth of the 5 Great Lakes and made me slightly regret not having detoured in Wisconsin to see the fifth one, Lake Superior. I think I was within 30 miles of it at one point.
I got my first good look at Lake Ontario in Sodus Point, NY. It was when I went to see their old lighthouse.
Sodus Point is also where I ended up having lunch, right down on the waterfront in the old town.
The road turned inland again after that so it was country roads again which are really nice in New York.
It is funny the way some people perceive the roads. I was telling this lady at a fruit stand I stopped at that I was riding through Hannibal on my way to Fulton to camp for the evening. She said that there was a HUGE hill before I would get to Hannibal. I never found the huge hill. There were plenty of hills around Hannibal and the entire ride today, but nothing I would describe as huge. Funny.
I camped just outside of Fulton at Lake Neatuhwania. Don’t ask me to pronounce it. I have no idea, but it was a nice lake and campground. I even had my own apple tree in my campsite.
It had been a long day. I am thinking about taking it easy tomorrow and have a short day. That sounds like a good idea to me.