Post #17: I went for an early ride this morning. I rolled out of the house in Covington around 7am. I left early to escape the heat that was coming mid-day.
I was about a mile from the house when a rider appeared from Old State Road, we waved and I went due south to Silver Lake Road for the 3 mile long climb to La Grange Road. It took me about 17 minutes, but once there I turned to the east to Geneseo.
I never have been over that way. I had concerns about shoulder widths on the roads. With that said, I planned the route down Jones Bridge Road, and hoped to see the Boyd and Parker Tree. Being that I was crossing the Genesee River I thought the tree was close to its' banks. I came out to the highway about a mile from the bridge and discovered my memory is faulty and the tree was about a 1/2 mile the other direction. I have seen the tree a thousand times, but never by bike.
I climbed the road and passed a cyclist on the climb. After I passed her I came to a traffic light and was stopped. She caught up to me and this intersection is tricky it is not a clean intersection. It is a T-intersection with a 45 degree right hand turn. I pulled up on the white line on the shoulder, and she worked her way down the intersection to the right more to have less traffic to cross with. I am still pondering whom was safer. My thought was being visible to cars making the right hand turn who may drive the shoulder. If a car had, they would have hit her. But she had the shortest line to cross the intersection with. I am still pondering who was safer.
I carried on after the light turned green and strolled into downtown Geneseo. I saw the bear is still in the downtown fountain. I pushed trough downton and left to the North and hopped on a gravel road called Nations Road. I think the name is tied to the Iroquois. I saw a road that headed off to the west to the Genesee River. I decided to take it to see an old bridge maybe. I did not know the road existed. I got a 1/4 mile down it to see a dead end sign. I U-turned and went back the gravel road that became a paved road. When I popped out, it was behind a another cyclist. I hunkered down and passed him. I then went into Fowlerville and then into York, then I came home via downtown Pavilion.
Today was a good day, I saw people out enjoying Western New York.
Cheers and Godspeed.
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