Cycling the Erie Canal

Four friends (Bea from Florida, Art from Savannah, Lynn from Savannah, Lamar from Vidalia) and me will leave my home in Rincon, GA this Friday for Buffalo, NY where we will join about 500 other bicyclist on Sunday to ride our bicycles from Buffalo to Albany, NY along the historic Erie Canal, one of the earliest towpaths built in USA. Taking eight days, we will camp at high schools and colleges, creating a tent city every night. Our group will have a nickname of "GOOBERS", which means, "We Get Off Our Bicycles Every Rest Stop". We have t-shirts and a sign that will announce our silly name for fun. Stopping overnight in Pittsburgh, we plan to arrive in Buffalo in time to pitch our tents, pick up our ride packet and take a quick trip in the van to see Niagra Falls. On the return to Georgia, we plan to stop in Washington, DC overnight and try to get a bicycle ride around the Capital in the morning to see some of the sites before finally getting home on July 18th.