DAY 1: "Who's friggin bike is that?"

Man I don't want to be on this bus.


The bus was on time at least, the driver assured me that was rare for a boarder crossiing trip. It had cost $80.00 to bring my bike along.
The boarder guards were all joking around, giving me a hard time, pretending everything I had in my bag was dope.
If you ever want to smuggle drugs into Buffalo, I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard.


I biked for a while, shit was... just like Ontario.
 Fat people, oversized fifteen year old t-shirts, huge square glasses... nice trees, the colours were all nice.
Yadda yadda...


The first time I really got off the beaten trail was in a town calle Pitsford, which is a pretty upscale suburb of Rochester. I had been going hard all day so i stopped and drank two five alives and talked to the shopkeep: a twenty something who was bored and lonely.


I set out and saw a bike shop in town where I stopped and bought two cliff bars.
The guys who worked there started raggin on my wierd looking bike outside while I sat and ate a bar, then they started asking me questions.


when I told them I was trying to bike to NYC and had come from Toronto they were mad excited.
Apparantly nothing good ever happens for youth in Pitsford.
One of the guys, Chris, lived two miles up the road and insisted I come for dinner, even though it was only 3:30, I did.


We had Salmon and Ravioli, and played Call of duty. there was a lifesize cutout of John McCain in the living room dressed up in football gear and I asked him who he voted for in the elections.
He said Obama, but his roomates hated him for it.


I eneded up going to wrong way about twenty mile, later on, and tossed a guy some bucks to drive me to syracuse.
He took me most of the way and I stayed in a Hostel on Oak St. Syracuse.
The weather had been perfect all day and going to sleep it started to rain.
I enjoyed the sound and cracked the window a bit as I fell asleep, thinking about the boarder guard saying with such shock and surprise: "Who's friggin bike is this?"
Day 1:
Money Spent:  $125.00
Distance Travelled: 148KM
Friends Made: 3
I am here:



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I (heart) NY... State Day 1

Okay, so
this is the first computer I've been able to use for more than five minutes in the last four days so TA-DA!
Shit is swell and New York state is fucking gorgeous. I could not have picked a more beautiful week to go. My first two days were sunny and warm with cool breezes and blue sky's.
It rained allot on Thursday night and through the whole day today but its still nice!
I've been writing in my book allot so ill write here about some of the trip so far.

I'm gonna break this up into a post per day...
later, sleep now.

Leaving...

Goodbye Toronto, I am leaving.

Rob Ford is the mayor and I'm a day behind schedule due to a last minute sleeping bag crisis.
My bike looks like a retarded Donkey but fuck it I can't wait any longer.
I don't have a digital camera so photo updates are less than likely.
I do have a digital video camera and will upload as many videos as I can.

Official Itinerary:

Tomorrow I get on a bus to buffalo at 7AM

I will then bike accross NY state going East twoards Albany, stopping twice along the way.
I will try to stay in Syracuse the first night using a connection found on warmshowers.
and most likely camp the second night, unless by some act of miracle I travel 245 KM with 50 pounds of gear.

By Thursday I should hopefully have reached Albany safe and sound and will stay with the folks from TBR, thus visiting my first bike co-op in America.

From there it's a straight forward two day ride down alongside the Hudson to NYC where who knows what shit I'll get up to!

No sleep till Brooklyn... Let's go! Bon Voyage Toronto

PS. if you want my route info you can view it here:

Syracuse to Albany


Albany/Troy to NYC