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nyc -> montreal bike ride

Day 1: NYC -> Red Mills

Private property, no public lands

Day 2: Red Mills -> Albany

Pretty, the rail trail is nice and serparted
Upstate new york has all these weird martyr things, very similar to iraqi shia ones
Catksills and aderondacks, not sure what else is there, small villages are very strange

Day 3: Albany -> Ticonderoga

Worse part of the ride, over 100 miles and between Whitehall and Ticonderoga is shitty climbing, followed by hills, last of the aderondacks
Route 4 is bad, between Compton and Whitehall is sketchy, but the side roads are sooo hilly, so take your pick
Trail splits here, one path to Buffalo
Met some guys that came from Buffalo to Albany
Fort edward bike shop, very good

Day 4: Ticonderoga -> Burlington

Boat is cool, Vermont drivers are better, lots of unpaved roads
People were continually curious about where I was riding to and where I had ridden from
Lots of places where a flat could’ve caused things to go south
No veteran posters in vermont either
Lots of tiny little towns where they say they were founded in 1776, very young country

Day 5: Burlington -> Montreal

Very flat, super quick zoom zoom, not much to discuss, very pretty
St Jean Richilieu is okay but not super interesting
Montreal is a very pretty city, it’s close to america but definitely not american
Rue Ontario is really a shitshow up north
Art museum was very good

Day 6: Montreal -> St Albans

Same as before, vermonter takes bikes, a decent enough situation