This post (number 4650+) may stay front and center for a few days because I’ve left my desk, seated myself, precariously, on an unmotorized bike, and am (I hope) making some speed from the western end of the Erie Canal to the eastern one. I started pedaling Sunday morning from Tonawanda, not Saturday as I’d initially planned. I expect I’ll see some morning fog as is often to be found in the corridor this time of year. Yes, I’ll be taking photos along the way. Some photos I’ve posted on FB directly from my phone, or put up later if there’s wifi. An observation though . . . when you’re biking, trying to maintain a steady speed, it takes much more motivation to stop that momentum to get the camera out of the bag and take a photo.
The October 14, 2020 calendar photos I took in Amsterdam NY. It turns out that we tied up facing the Riverkeeper boat, R. Ian Fletcher on the wall just above lock 11, which, had it been clear, you’d easily see.
No matter what time you’ve planned a morning Canal departure, you might not actually move until the fog lifts, of course unless your have working radar.
Grande Mariner‘s radar had to be folded down during a Canal transit to clear the low bridges.
In the landcut portions of the canal, in autumn mornings you see scenes like these. I have to write it . . . eerie canal.
Sentinels with lethal force work the locks and
keep watch from the dead trees.
Once I can from a technological perspective, I’ll put images on FB, maybe even here. This is “making it up as I go along.”
Beef on weck, white hots, tomato pies, ghost bread, and other blandishments along the Canal Trail will be devoured with thanks. Today I’m in Syracuse area on plan to get some greens even though I’m not yet in Utica. My goals are as follows: Rome tomorrow, Little Falls Friday, Amsterdam Saturday, and Waterford Sunday . . . but that’s ambitious!
All photos, WVD, who hopes to be back at this desk in less than two weeks.
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October 7, 2020 at 11:30 am
Daniel J Meeter
Marvelous that you are pedaling upstate, just as I was thinking of you, have just read about the Black River feeder canal, and Port Leyden, and Holland Patent, and Remsen, and Constantia and van der Kemp. All extra ponds and eddies in the history of the Erie Canal.
October 7, 2020 at 7:16 pm
CAL FOWX
👍🏻Wish you well.
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October 8, 2020 at 10:25 pm
Lou Carreras
sounds like it’s going to be an epic “road trip” along the canal.
October 9, 2020 at 4:36 am
tugster
as of this morning, i’m 2/3 way across.. .
October 13, 2020 at 2:19 pm
Rembert
Enviable! A new Bixter – series, starting with some indian summer sun rises and Campagnolo shifters would be adequate solace for those, enduring home and office and home office.
July 21, 2021 at 8:20 pm
Becky
Nice