Day 25- Goodbye Pennsylvania-Hello New York

Day 25 Wednesday June 2,2010 Distance 82.53 km. Time 4 hrs. 59 min. Total so far 1908.52 km. After listening to the trucks, buses and more trucks (gas trucks, cattle trucks for the meat processing plant in Wyalusing and dump trucks for the quarry) we were a little apprehensive about finishing off the ten miles on this road. We waited for the fog to lift before hitting the road. I'm sure we were very unpopular with the truck drivers as there was not much edge and what there was, was in very poor condition and dangerous sometimes with big holes and cracks. Not only that but the road went up and down as it curved all over. After passing through Fairfield and Montrose we were very happy to reach Hwy 11 and cross into New York. Then we had reasonably flat roads for a while with really nice edges and we zoomed along. We are going toward Binghamton to find a bicycle store to purchase some spokes for Dave. We had the Susquehanna River going alongside the road. We found Aeros Cyclery and Joan had some spokes almost the correct length. She told us that in 2002 her store was closed for over a year because the Susquehanna river had flooded that June. She said that the Eureka Tent factory across the street spent a small fortune after that to make a system around the building to prevent further flooding. Dave is in a quandry now as to which route to take to Maine where Cheryl lives -at first he was thinking of continuing east between the Adirondacks and Catskills and then over but now we have been talking to people that say if we take Hwy 11 north and go above the Adirondacks we will see less hills. We really want to save our legs for Canada. We were going to keep on Hwy 7 and came to a place where bicycles are prohibited on it so Lou from Dick's garage gave us directions to the motels. I didn't complain when we turned in to the Super 8 but I did complain when the person behind the counter told us the grocery store was 1 mile up the road and it was really more like 3! Sarah is really good at catching us on the internet and we talked to her and baby Tryne on SKYPE. It is still very cold in Alberta. In fact, on the weekend they had a rowing regatta in Edmonton and they all had to turn back to Calgary due to the snowy roads. I think we'll keep this heat instead!