Joe Green's Bike Adventure

  • Swimming Down the Road 7-27-23

    It was raining pretty hard this morning but was supposed to taper off by this afternoon, so in the hopes of staying somewhat dry, I started late this morning on a 34-mile ride from Long Lake, NY to a motel in between Inlet, NY and Old Forge, NY on the Fulton Chain of Lakes, still…

  • Adventure in the Adirondacks 7-26-23

    As the photos below will attest, the rushing water in rivers and creeks along the road today were quite beautiful, but I was about to learn first-hand the toll taken by the flash flooding conditions in recent weeks. My route today was to have taken me 38 miles from North Hudson, NY to Long Lake,…

  • Climbing the Adirondacks 7-25-23

    Today I left Ticonderoga, NY and made it to the Blue Ridge Motel near North Hudson, NY by mid-afternoon. It was only about 23 miles, but I was climbing for nearly three hours into the Adirondack Mountains at the beginning of the route and it was quite challenging. At one point, a driver with a…

  • Live Long and Prosper 7-24-23

    I pulled up stakes at the Shoreham Inn this morning, but before I did, captured this photo of Andrew Done, one of the owners. Unfortunately, Andrew’s wife Elizabeth was busy getting rooms ready for the next guests and wasn’t available for a photo. The two of them make a great team and I had an…

  • History Comes Alive in Ticonderoga, NY 7-23-23

    Today was not a biking day, but I did a lot of walking after my innkeeper Andrew was kind enough to give me a ride to the ferry to Ticonderoga. Before my trip to Ticonderoga, however, I attended the First Congregational Church in Shoreham, VT, a few blocks from the inn. You may recall that…

  • Old and Older 7-21 and 7-22-23

    As I mentioned in the post from Thursday, 7-20, I spent that night at an old inn, Waybury, one of the oldest in the state. The next morning, I discovered something there that was quite a surprise. If you were to try to guess what would be the least likely thing to come across in…

  • Sometimes Life’s Path is Uphill 7-20-23

    My path through the Green Mountains of western Vermont yesterday (7/20) took me over the Middlebury Pass, the last of my steep climbs before I cross the border into Ticonderoga, NY. There was a lot to intimidate me about this climb. On the elevation map, Middlebury Pass appears even steeper than the dreaded Kancamagus Pass…

  • I Recall My Early Years in Journalism (and their Strange Connection to American Car Dealers) 7-19-23

    I’ll get to the point of the headline shortly, but first, a word about yesterday’s biking, which took me from a remote area (i.e., dirt roads) around Royalton, VT to Rochester, VT. There was a lot of beautiful countryside on my ride, much of it along the White River. I only had about 20 miles…

  • Synchronicity 7-18-23

    Contrary to what I said I needed to do in yesterday’s blog, I didn’t backtrack to Orford to deal with the bridge outage in Lyme, but rather headed south, through Hanover, the home of Dartmouth College, so that I could take the Lyman Bridge west from Lebanon, New Hampshire to the White River Junction in…

  • Meeting People on the Job 7-17-23

    When you’re on a bike, it seems there are a lot more opportunities to connect with people, in part because they are curious about what you are doing, and also because you are slowing down enough to notice them. I stopped briefly at the side of a road in front of an orange road sign…