https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html Cycling the Erie Canal, July 12-20, 2025 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#0 387c180b-d1aa-4771-9109-8e4fc311a76e https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0379/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0379/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Loading bikes on trucks at Quackenbush Square in Albany. That's my bike on the right in the truck. Note the handlebars turned to the right. July 12, before the ride.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#1 4082eb25-56ab-4cab-8ee3-69d9ff3f8b54 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0380/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0380/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">After a long bus ride we arrived at the camp in Buffalo. We used Comfy Campers.  That's Candace in front of our tent - number 81 at the start of a row.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#2 7fc58520-bfa9-4130-b174-7c36a5e668d4 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0381/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0381/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">On Sunday morning, July 13, we headed north along the Niagara River. That's my bike; other CTEC riders are on the path.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#3 82e3bb9b-6191-4ff6-9175-050eca621471 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0383/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0383/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Candace in front of the Niagara River.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#4 e2b41da3-cc79-45ab-88ab-00c9db7e7c98 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0387/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0387/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The canal just before we reached Lockport.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#5 dc878884-6b5c-4f28-a832-0ea23bf2dddd https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0388/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0388/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Lockport originally had two sets of 5 locks to lift boats up to the Niagara escarpment. One (non-operational) set of these locks remain and are in the foreground.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#6 a0ad28b0-5d75-4ccf-976a-fd14867e5825 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0389/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0389/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The original locks. I believe we heard that they are being restored.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#7 2953665d-00e8-4a90-bf45-a9c83b32b2da https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0391/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0391/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Currently there are a set of double locks which carry the canal up to the escarpment.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#8 d073b631-8d79-4c35-bf37-6e5c95b807f1 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0394/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0394/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">A memorial to the canal diggers with Candace in the middle.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#9 4c72b225-9e64-4a54-a1e9-56aa11d1251f https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0395/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0395/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">A couple of boats have been lowered in the upstream lock and are waiting to enter the downstream lock.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#10 78f7e7c1-d0a0-4f96-afd2-9b61102c000b https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0399/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0399/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">In the downstream lock with gates closed behind them.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#11 c4e56e03-e8e7-4ea6-ab00-3f4e8a7537ba https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0403/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0403/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Water is let out of the downstream lock.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#12 e72c0f70-67e9-490e-8b98-bfcfb807a532 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0408/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0408/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Downstream gates opening.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#13 2e872b8c-6215-4bfb-824a-b025f2e793f7 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0412/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0412/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">And the boats go on their way.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#14 e7cc317f-f800-4a3c-abff-7ccc2d78b2df https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0414/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0414/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">At the afternoon rest stop in Middleport.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#15 a4f64483-51ea-40ee-a751-931f4c105a76 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0415/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0415/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Leaving Medina, early Monday morning, July 14.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#16 03ff336e-1f6c-4069-b807-0dbcc4da2b0a https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0419/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0419/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Candace with Mark and Carol. Carol was on the 2000 ride and is a Canal Crooner!</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#17 cdddbc73-9c69-49ea-9db7-311173f36f4c https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0422/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0422/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Candace and the very quiet canal on Monday morning.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#18 e86d6c0e-2a71-4632-aace-8861d7f28f64 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0424/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0424/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">We wondered about the significance of two red and one green buoys. Monday afternoon, July 14.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#19 f752344a-683a-43fb-a66e-862f171f46a7 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0427/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0427/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Monday afternoon selfie with the Genesee River as a backdrop. The canal and the river cross near Rochester.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#20 918274ed-689d-48fe-9c84-ca4f3c40dee3 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0429/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0429/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Tuesday morning, the canal a bit east of Palmyra (where Joseph Smith had the hallucinations that led to Mormonism).</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#21 6de59d3b-0ac9-4c40-9a73-5ac8639ace25 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0431/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0431/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Later on Tuesday morning, a lock near Lyons, NY.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#22 03bb5c36-9b3c-4509-8f7a-ffb66be8c411 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0432/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0432/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Also near Lyons, a mural.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#23 34b63967-5cd9-4c64-9574-5b9e454f67b3 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0433/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0433/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">And the description of the mural.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#24 7354e564-5796-4452-95a6-053dc08066b7 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0435/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0435/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">A rooster in Clyde, NY where we stopped for lunch on Tuesday.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#25 30384922-9f74-467b-8bdb-00cffcbdfe46 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0437/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0437/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Wednesday morning near Cayuga Lake, a corn field with hay bales in the background.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#26 7207f476-68f3-449c-8155-1be5e502ce16 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0438/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0438/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Cayuga Lake.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#27 5dc61666-5fb5-41fb-8b9f-b7a6c7dec854 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0439/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0439/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">A good looking farm.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#28 c8b865fd-65ed-4daf-9b1e-f9c02180a281 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0441/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0441/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Wednesday morning we came across a piece of the original canal.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#29 09d5448b-c101-4562-a05e-44a229ae042e https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0442/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0442/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">A closer view of the original canal structure.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#30 79c490c7-8fd8-403e-9289-7f64c57c8bc0 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0443/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0443/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">I think this may be a piece of the trail we're riding.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#31 0e1052f0-00af-448b-9561-c749ead93b4c https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0444/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0444/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">A zoom to explain what's in the next photo.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#32 1874533a-bc6f-4efb-ab1a-e16be9b1f33e https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0444%20-%20Version%202/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0444%20-%20Version%202/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The model canal boat. Mid morning on Wednesday, July 16.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#33 310a441b-275a-4eb9-b3c9-44ff2be95e88 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0447/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0447/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Ed next to the Montezuma sign.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#34 d164b017-5f0b-48d9-a57c-14d9890c4ca0 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0450/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0450/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">And Candace next to the sign.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#35 00f57f3f-e2a4-4b12-b76f-d7ec84cc587d https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0451/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0451/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Not exactly sure what this structure is. It may have been some kind of dry dock.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#36 ec244ffe-ee50-4186-987f-c5432eb704a0 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0453/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0453/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Candace checking it out.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#37 6aa91ecc-52c7-4bea-9825-0ee72b63c966 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0455/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0455/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">At camp, Wednesday evening, Dylan, the tour director tells us what to expect.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#38 28ec4110-c996-4eca-8615-4af8050423b2 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0457/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0457/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">For dinner, we walked to a nearby restaurant where we also had musical entertainment!</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#39 82887da2-e38d-4d96-b214-418aa1562841 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0458/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0458/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Thursday morning we're making our way through Syracuse. This is the Niagara Mohawk Power building.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#40 42eaf391-f049-4b41-a072-2cc7b20bd257 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0459/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0459/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">East of Syracuse, the canal crosses a stream. (Ed's bike on the left.)</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#41 e685c1ac-37fb-4447-948f-29bfce0aa9f1 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0461/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0461/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Candace checking out the stream.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#42 a9feaa6a-b317-4b6f-a770-852b2721a6c6 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0463/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0463/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">These wildflowers were fairly common along the stream.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#43 d311c30f-050d-4321-a188-acfb61a9f2c8 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0464/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0464/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">In Canastota, we had ice cream for lunch. I don't know why Candace is hugging the giraffe!</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#44 8e79946c-6c28-43eb-9148-d02954431e00 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0465/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0465/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">In the afternoon we came across lock 21.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#45 d416a172-2099-41a2-95ab-74b24a8e0184 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0466/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0466/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">I believe the lock is being emptied.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#46 f38b799e-c6dc-413a-a9f8-9bf0d4aa384b https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0467/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0467/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Thursday night we stayed in Rome, where a street festival was in progress. It was quite windy!</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#47 a1207b73-abff-48ff-918a-f80bb29e7c72 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0470/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0470/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Sculptures at the end of the street.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#48 2ca4ac4b-6492-4044-9d75-f46aeeb403ee https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0472/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0472/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">An informative sign in Rome.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#49 4d96e1ec-2466-426b-94c1-1054794a8317 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/An%20informative%20sign%20in%20Rome.%20-%20Version%202/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/An%20informative%20sign%20in%20Rome.%20-%20Version%202/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Expanded so you can read it!</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#50 6e8d1db8-8bb8-481e-af8a-b32d1b5fd79d https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0473/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0473/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Three FANY riders in Rome! It's early Friday morning.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#51 9ea403c5-8616-45ac-9ae6-895b91c97835 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0476/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0476/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Candace is standing under a bridge that carries a highway over the canal (which can be seen on the right). This is where we took shelter from a violent thunderstorm on our 2020 self supported tour.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#52 abc29276-753d-4884-b2fe-552c4001a9e4 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0477/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0477/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Still fairly early in the morning, we came across another lock. This was interesting because the lock master wanted to show it off.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#53 1fff5f03-aec9-4aed-a98a-9a3cd91d10b2 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0478/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0478/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The higher side of the lock.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#54 3d60754c-090b-4de8-ad4a-0baff11137b7 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0480/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0480/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Lock data.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#55 19277bb0-500e-4da9-91d7-8cb4d833c89b https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0481/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0481/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The downstream gates.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#56 450af2b8-4a38-40a2-9afc-17dafe6eb8b0 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0482/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0482/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">How the water is released from the lock.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#57 98d9bab1-655e-48ab-b722-869c05ac0213 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0484/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0484/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Looking upstream, the red beam opens and closes the lock.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#58 f7a1ce3e-0d90-4cc6-b8da-8bd9422c2a2b https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0485/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0485/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">We came to another lock just north of Utica.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#59 9b141e48-d400-4df7-80ef-870e147424d5 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0486/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0486/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Candace at the lock.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#60 a03b0037-c959-4150-bd16-8425b359d357 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0487/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0487/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">This is a guillotine lock. The gate is raised and lowered rather than swung open and shut. I believe we were told it's the only guillotine lock on the canal.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#61 09bd2a8d-9dfa-439e-93d0-0c147655ae10 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0488/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0488/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">We had some ice cream in Ilion.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#62 4247696d-dc80-4be5-a32e-a5d63e9c46ba https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0492/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0492/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">It's mid morning on Saturday, July 19. We came across these two bridges (one behind is hard to see) at Schoharie Creek which feeds into the Mohawk River (which is the modern day canal).</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#63 189ed584-b037-47f6-acb5-bb0f14591a06 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0493/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0493/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Looking the other direction: remains of an old viaduct.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#64 d76a7f62-6223-4e23-88b1-d03ff0d2c3af https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0495/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0495/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Saturday morning rest stop, west of Amsterdam.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#65 7d8d72fe-2bd9-4904-8efc-169a5a475e34 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0496/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0496/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The Amsterdam Castle (where Candace and I had stayed when things were just opening up after Covid).</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#66 781ac830-b9a7-411f-9c59-1667cb9275a0 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0497/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0497/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">A description of what's next.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#67 fa6df63e-b7a0-4038-b904-9ff9156939d6 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0499/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0499/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">The double lock seen from the end.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#68 6897ada1-ccc4-407f-9459-03f6dadb63d7 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0500/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0500/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">At the very end of the double lock.  Not sure what this was for.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#69 29bb46a6-23dd-436e-a2e9-9f54af7e0db6 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0501/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0501/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">A better view of one of the locks.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#70 826b0ebb-a5da-4b33-973f-aba45ef32261 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0503/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0503/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">As we approached Schenectady, we came across the General Electric Building. Here's a sign describing GE.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#71 48e65550-b5fc-4a66-8936-29b9beeeb819 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0507/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0507/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">And here's the building.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#72 d5ed7434-be8f-4710-bbf2-6d67b639e398 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0509/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0509/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Riding into Schenectady in the early afternoon, we stopped for a beer!</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#73 66cc13a2-185d-46dd-8609-2e6c04a3d324 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0510/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0510/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">I was intrigued by the brickwork on this old building - especially under the windows.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#74 8679a759-10d7-4fda-ad1f-3a72bc7615c9 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0511/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0511/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">At camp on Saturday evening there was beer. This is what I had - it seems to have a historical claim!</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#75 cfe4838d-956e-44f0-8947-333487f67a92 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0515/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0515/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Cohoes Falls - a real challenge for the canal. It took 16 locks and a whole day to get past these falls on the original canal.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#76 16d31d18-60c3-4fc0-88a7-9d072c79666a https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0516/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0516/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">A wide view. The 16 locks were off to the left.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#77 36982734-f691-4015-98f8-9b7cfa785c1b https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0517/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0517/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Looking downstream towards the Hudson. Peebles Island is somewhere down there.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#78 7d56ba78-e1f0-462f-ad73-385fa7e33aa2 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0518/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0518/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">Peebles Island is just downstream where the Mohawk joins the Hudson.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#79 a047bbbe-4721-4aaf-8f77-c303cd2428ce https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0520/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0520/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">We're riding a skyway back to Quackenbush Square. We thought we might have lunch at Common Roots, but we found a different place around the corner. We were met by Jeff and by Candace's student Una and we all had lunch together.</p></div></div> https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025.html#80 5adf89c5-087c-4fbb-8d86-174d0a28d586 https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0521/thumb.jpg https://edandjane.net/Home/Cycling_the_Erie_Canal,_July_12-20,_2025_files/Media/IMG_0521/micro.jpg <div style="padding: 0px; " class="image_cluster_layout_style_default_External_0_0"><div class="image_cluster_layout_style_default"><p style="padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; " class="Caption">We can still smile after 400 miles!</p></div></div>