June 10- Walcott to Syracuse

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We decided to head southeast today instead of our planned northeast route.  We like to think that we were just being free spirits, but truth be told, we were tired and wanted to head home.  Early on we cycled through rain and got on the Eire Canal trail heading east.  As the trail passed through the town of Jordan, we asked about the availability of coffee and breakfast.  We were directed to a neat little place called Peace Love and Coffee.  The shop is run by Sara (sorry that I didn’t ask if it was Sara with an “h”) and Mike.  Mike made us breakfast sandwiches with fresh biscuits and Sara served coffee.  Sara and her friend made the variety of pastries they served.  We just had to try her cinnamon buns. They were fantastic and the coffee was wonderful.  Sara and Mike were great hosts and we wish them well.

 We cycled on the canal trail for over 20 miles until we got to Syracuse where we had about 15 miles of road cycling to get to our van at Dick’s house (if you forgot who and why our Van was at Dick’s house see day 1 of this blog).  Our route through Syracuse took us into a park where a large Pride festival was occurring. On the other side of the park we were dumped onto a street lined with folks waiting for the Pride Parade to come through.  We cycled the parade route until we came head on to the parades beginning and a police officer mad us exit the route. See, we really are free spirits.


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