Cruising into the Great Lakes

The Night of the fifth day... From East Aurora, just outside of Buffalo, NY. ~460 miles down.
Today was another big day. Yesterday I decided to not go to my planned place to sleep, and instead packed away a few more miles passing through Auburn and Sleeping in a small town called Waterloo, where I also enjoyed some fine tasting sweet potato fries at Connie's Diner. It saved my 40 miles in total, not going to the house I had lined up, I got to sleep out by a river with ducks flying by, and I got further.

The change of plans set me ahead of schedule and now I'm at Buffalo in 5 days instead of the anticipated 6. I'm feeling it though, The hills are no joke around here.

Today was magnificent, cold morning, had Coffee at Connie's Diner at 6:30 and rolled out around 7.
once I got through the rest of the finger lakes region, the hills came back. Big,  relentless hills through the farm lands of New York. The burns are stacking up, I suppose I need to use more sunscreen, and use it earlier in the day.

In 5 days, I've biked 460 miles. Something that far surpasses what I've done with biking in the past.

It's lonely though,. that's the hardest part. Besides for the wonderful people I meet periodically, I'm on my bike, all day, alone, in the sun, working (or in the rain and the wind). I'm seeing all the places everyone driving through misses though, and well the pros outweigh the cons, or else I wouldn't be here.