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Friday morning. The morning rest stop on day 6 was at Lock 20 near Marcy.
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Cyclists at the rest stop.
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Utica Mayor Tim Julian (yellow shirt) gets ready to lead riders
into Utica. It turns out he is a pretty fast rider. He set a pace
of 17-18 mph and after a while the police asked him to slow down
because he was stretching out the "peloton" so far that they had
to keep the roads closed too long!
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The first stop in Utica was the Matt Brewery where some of the
riders took a brewery tour. The mayor and the police escort get
ready to lead the rest of the riders to an Art Institute tour.
Bet you can't guess which tour I went on!
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It wasn't hard to guess, was it? Here are some of the riders
examining samples of malted barley.
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Here, they're on an observation deck.
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And this is what they're looking at: the wort cookers.
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Bottle cleaning.
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Bottle filling.
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Packing into six packs and cases. Barb is closest to the camera.
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Sampling some of the products. The Matt Brewery's main line is
Saranac beer. That's Fawn in the blue shirt talking to Bill.
A random fact: You have to ride about three miles to burn as many
calories as you ingest by drinking one bottle of beer. (Of course,
YMMV.)
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Matt's had a working "player xylophone." That's one of the
Richards on the far right.
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After the brewery or institute tour, riders were invited to Hanna
Park next to city hall to have lunch on the mayor.
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Part of tent city at Monroe Field in Little Falls. The green tent
in the middle of the picture is the same tent as ours but it
belongs to a couple from Connecticut. This trip was the first
time we ever saw anybody else with the same tent.
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The rest of tent city at Little Falls. Our tent is way in the
back. Jane and I had a very nice dinner at the Canal Side Inn
which serves French and American cuisine. We were a little
underdressed compared to the locals, but everyone was friendly
and interested in the cycle tour.
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