Day 47 - 74 miles from Little Falls to Latham, NY

Today, Anne and Michael rode the Co-Motion the 74 miles to Latham. By the way, here is a picture of our Co-Motion that has served us very well during this xUSA tour. Notice it is at another ice cream shop.

Again, we were blessed with a very beautiful day with plenty of sun and temperature in the 70's and little humidity for the most part of the day. So, along with these attributes and the beautiful scenery, the ride was very nice.

As opposed to the last few rides, we took lots of pictures on this ride. Some are shown below; however, if you want to see more just open the xUSA album at https://plus.google.com/photos/102207335230379372875/albums/5891329806057309137.

We wore our new Canada jerseys for the first time. Notice that someone has to be looking at where we are going! Again, we thank our fellow rider Don for this picture.

As we left Little Falls, we didn't get very far before it was picture time. These three were taken from a bridge on the way out of Little Falls.

Soon thereafter, we had a two-mile climb with some of it at over 9% grade to reach the top of a ridge we rode for about four miles before descending.

Notice how far you can see in the distance. It was this way all along the ridge.

This is the other side of the road.

Here come some of our riders.

Here is where we started the 4-mile descent and what a descent it was, especially on the Co-Motion!

We went through many old towns like this one built in the early 1800's.

Today, we rode on some great paved bike paths along the Mohawk River. Here is one of them. What was challenging on this path was a short climb of  12-15% that took all we had to get the Co-Motion to the top and Anne's cheerleading sure helped, too.

Bridge and locks on the river.

I found this interesting. It is an old lock, No. 23 that use to be on the Erie Canal; obviously, the Erie Canal was rerouted after it was built.

After leaving the bike path and stopping at the last SAG stop, we entered another bike path along the Mohawk River that led us to Latham. The river reminded us of the Mississippi River except it is not muddy.

After reaching Latham, of course we had to find a ice cream. A first for a chocolate/peanut butter shake. Yummy!

At the ice cream shop, we noticed this picture. Don't know whether it is a modified picture or not; but notice how no one is looking at President Bush! Murray, I doubt you think it is a modified picture!

Tomorrow, we ride 79 miles to Brattleboro, VT. The profile depicts some steep and long grades; so, this will be a challenging 79 miles, then there will be only two days left of our xUSA tour!