Coast2Coast Day 70:  North East, Pennsylvania to Buffalo, New York; one more state, picked up Daniel in Dunkirk, and dinner with Bob and Chris!

After a cool night, began riding at sunrise with plans to meet Daniel in Dunkirk.  He has been riding through Canada, and returned to the States through Niagara Falls.  He was riding backwards to meet me after a rest day in Buffalo, New York.  I gave him an approximate ETA, and was two minutes early.  I had already ridden through Barcelona, and in addition to Dunkirk, we rode through Hanover and Angola.  Not quite a world tour, but worldly locations!

I started closer than I had thought to the New York State border, and continued to hug the Lake Erie coast.  Once again together, we ‘meandered’ a bit using the Adventure Cycling route.  We varied to a ‘short cut’ that ended up a little more exciting than planned.  It seems that the New York drivers are more aggressive in not giving space or deference to bicyclists!   As I rode, I tripled the near misses from passing vehicles over the first 4,000 miles!  

We met with Cathy at a local library, with Daniel heading to his Warm Showers host as Cathy and I went to our Harvest Host “Buffalo Riverworks” near downtown Buffalo.  After settling in, we picked up Daniel in the van, and drove to a dinner location to meet up with Bob and Chris for re-unification dinner.  Bob and Chris are heading out from Buffalo tomorrow, and Daniel, Cathy and I are taking a rest day.  We had dinner in a building from 1864 or approximately.

Chris and Bob are heading to Boston, while Daniel and I will travel through Rochester to Palmyra together.  He’ll head to New York City, while Cathy and I head to the Coast of Maine.  It is amazing to me how we have been able to get back together over so many miles.

So far:  Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and now New York!

Rest day haircut, coming up!