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Tuesday morning. Sign for lock 30 in Macedon Village. About 16 miles from the
start of day 3.
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A pleasure boat locking through lock 30.
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Chris arrives at lock 30. In case you don't recognize what he's
riding, it's called a recumbent bicycle and has underseat steering.
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Warren studies the gates. He's the captain of a tandem team. Pam
is the stoker.
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What Warren is studying. According to the sign, lock 30 gives an
elevation change of about 16 feet.
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The boat leaves lock 30 to the east.
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A rider arrives at lock 30.
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The morning rest stop on Day 3 was at the Joseph Smith family
homestead in Palmyra. Joseph Smith founded Mormonism. There's a
reconstruction of his boyhood home on the site. Here's the
fireplace.
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Riders inside the home admiring a digital camera which allows
entry of a caption with the picture.
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The master bedroom.
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The upstairs girls' bedroom. Apparently in those days it was
taboo for boys to walk through a girls' bedroom, so the girls'
bedroom was always the farthest back in the house.
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The exterior of the house.
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Mateo and his mommy at the rest stop. Mateo is 3-1/2 years old.
Unfortunately, Mateo and his mom and dad had to leave the tour
due to a family emergency back home.
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A random farm along the ride, not very far from Palmyra.
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Future tent city at the Mynderse Academy in Seneca Falls.
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The Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls. The women's suffrage
movement began in Seneca Falls. Is it a coincidence that polygamy
and woman's rights got their starts at almost the same place???
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A boat passes by Tavern on the Flats (where we had dinner) on the
Seneca-Cayuga canal which is part of the Erie canal system (but
not part of the Erie canal proper).
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A docked boat near Tavern on the Flats. Note the bicycles. Many
pleasure boats had bicycles parked on them. Boaters cruise along
the canal and use bicycles to travel around once they've docked.
Many towns provide marinas or docks with toilet and shower
facilities to make it easy to take a pleasure tour along the
canal.
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Facing the camera are Bob, Carol, and Jane on the Tavern on the
Flats patio. Carol first told me about the canal tour during the Great
Finger Lakes Bike Tour in June.
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We found an ice cream shop and a park not too far from where we
had dinner. Here's a shot of the boats docked along the Seneca
Falls waterfront on the canal.
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A tour boat carrying some of the riders in our group on a tour of
the locks.
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Due to a severe thunderstorm warning, tent city moved inside the
Mynderse Academy for the night. There was a severe
thunderstorm about 3am. It was too dark in the gym to get a
photo, but here's the lobby with a few riders set for the night
or killing time. To make more space available, some of the
classrooms were opened. Jane and I found a classroom on the
second floor and stretched out on our air mattresses. We had the
room to ourselves!
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