Day 8: Amsterdam to Albany [bicycling]

Then there's the moment when suddenly, you're back on familiar roads/paths. I don't ride the section of the Erie Canal Trail that's north/west of here all that often, in part because the direct route is only half as long, but I've been out there occasionally.

Today's locks were particularly cool. In the morning, Lock 10 started singing to us. I got a couple of recordings of it that I'll hopefully get around to posting soon. Later on, I noticed the Lock 7 sign just in the nick of time to get us to pull over and visit. I've been to Lock 7 previously, but this time we got to watch two sailboats and a motorboat lock through. What was most amazing was watching the water spew out when they discharged the lock to get the sailboats in. I also recorded video of that bit.

And then, home along the Hudson River, over the Skyway bridge, and back to the kitties and the house!

I have a lot of catch-up stuff to attend to tomorrow, sigh. But I'll ride the vacation high just a little bit longer, now.