Day 6: Port Byron, NY to Rochester, NY

Today I rode 60 miles with 2073 feet of elevation from Port Byron NY to Rochester NY. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:18

Today's the end of day six. Today I rode 60.6 miles from Port Byron, New York to where are we?

SPEAKER_00 0:28

Rochester, New York.

SPEAKER_02 0:30

Yeah, but what's the suburb?

SPEAKER_00 0:31

Pittsford Street.

SPEAKER_02 0:32

Pittsford, New York. Today I climbed 2,073 feet of elevation gain. The day started early when I woke up. There was plenty of dew on the tent in the neighborhood yard of the worm showers house that I stayed with last night. Thank you to Mary and Mike and also Nick, who I stayed with. I hit the road with some chocolate milk and a donut and decided to take the asphalt instead of the gravel path, which was really nice because it was a lot softer on the soreness of my body and felt just fast compared to the gravel riding that I'd been doing the last few days. It's also nice to kind of have traffic again because uh you can feel the air behind you. I got to ride in the shadow of clouds. Um there was maybe about a 45-minute interval of sunshine before a big storm front showed up. And then I got hammered with rain for about 35 minutes at maybe 9 a.m. And um it got a little bit cold, but thankfully I broke out to the other side and dropped into a bike shop where I met Jamie. Um Jamie was super nice, helped me fill up my tire with air that I was running at 20 PSI from the inability to pump it up much more with my hand pump. Um, I bought some CO2 cartridges, and Jamie shared a lot about e-bikes and how he feels the market is changing. I was coming into Rochester and so traffic had picked up and I enjoyed riding amongst the cars. I felt pretty zoomy in the tighter spaces. And um, then I made it to the towpath bike shop, which is back on the Erie Canal, and is where Doug, hi Doug, the father of one of my good friends back from Maine, Eric, hi Eric, met me and then took me to his home that he shares with Betty. Hi, Betty, hi, where I've been resting for most of the day. We just ate really delicious food that Doug made and have had some good conversation, and it it's been really fun. Do you guys have anything you want to add? Thanks for hosting me.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

Oh, you're welcome. So, so this is Boo Boo and Yogi. Um, the uh Eric's parents. No, I'm thinking he doesn't call me boo boo and yogi, but the grandkids call us boo-boo and yogi.

SPEAKER_01 3:01

Um Chinese or grandmother, and rather than use the Chinese word for grandpa, I chose to be yogi.

SPEAKER_02 3:12

Yeah, it goes with boo-boo better. What was it like hosting a cyclist today?

SPEAKER_01 3:18

It was wonderful. Uh Andrew Haystack has been uh a great uh uh guest and full of lots of stories.

SPEAKER_00 3:27

Stories, yeah. We shared stories too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:31

There's a lot going on in this house right now, isn't there?

SPEAKER_00 3:34

Oh yeah. Uh a tie. The um Eric's grandmother is with us. She kind of keeps things interesting. I don't know. Did you get to nap when she was doing her thing? Screaming?

SPEAKER_02 3:51

Oh, Eric called me and and we just talked on the phone. There was no napping. Right now, Betty and Doug are doing lots of caregiving for Betty's mom, and that is uh especially challenging. Yeah, I don't need to share what's not mine to share, but the increase of needs is really a lot.

SPEAKER_00 4:12

Yeah, yeah. So it was a pleasant uh surprise or pleasant uh diversion to have Andrew here, you know, as as Eric would say, you know, you need somebody different to talk to. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:26

Did Eric think you were helping me or I was helping you today, huh?

SPEAKER_00 4:29

Um both, really. Both. It was both. He thought we needed it, and you know, and it would be nice if you know you were able to stop by. But um, yeah. I tried to tell Eric we do have friends.

SPEAKER_02 4:45

Not many, but um Andrew was able to tickle the ivories for a few minutes while he was here to I tried. But uh Wabu didn't care.

SPEAKER_00 4:58

She was quiet though, when you were playing. So at first I thought, oh, maybe it's soothing to her. But then I thought, ah, she can't hear.

SPEAKER_02 5:06

So the the mysteries of uh dementia, huh? Yes, yes. Some things we'll never know.

SPEAKER_00 5:11

Yes, yes. Um she did ask you to pass her her juice, which I thought was interesting. True, yeah. And then she did say thank you. So I was like, oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02 5:24

Yeah. That to me was the first time I I, you know, I don't understand her tone of voice or expressions, but um that was the first time I was able to relate to her because what I've heard from her is just her expressing needs and expecting them to be tended to as opposed to sort of a mutual exchange of information. So that was kind of her to grace me with that.

unknown 5:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:49

Apple juice for the win. Yeah. Thank you guys for hosting me and for showing up on my my little podcast.

SPEAKER_00 5:58

You're welcome. Part of history. Yeah. Doug was saying, depending on how mom is tomorrow, maybe he'd ride out with you.

SPEAKER_02 6:08

Yeah, that would be really good.

SPEAKER_00 6:09

Send you off to the into the sun, the sunrise.

SPEAKER_02 6:12

I couldn't keep up with you today when you were going up the hills. I was like, you know, I mean, I didn't have the weight that you were carrying. Yeah, but still, you know, I'd I'd like to think that the age difference would compensate, but as soon as I as soon as I try to put power through the pedals, I just fatigue out really, really quickly. I have no like sustain.

SPEAKER_01 6:33

Yeah. Well, I mean, you were you didn't know the path, and you know, I you know, I gained I knew the hill was was followed by an uphill.

SPEAKER_02 6:42

And now I have a hill followed by an uphill, so I would speed up so it could carry me up. But so well, we can enjoy more cycling tomorrow. Thank you guys again, and it's been a real pleasure. I'm excited to tell Eric all about it when I get home, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 7:01

All right, okay, bye bye.

SPEAKER_02 7:03

Bye, bye, happy trails, happy trails.