Saturday, July 31, 2010

Day 7

Saturday, July 31st: Owego NY -> Corning NY
Dist 55.14
Ride Time: 5:05h
Avg Speed: 10.8
Max Speed: 35.7
Trip 373

Two freight trains passed by during the night, when those whistles blew it sounded like they were right next to my tent! (Which they nearly were, I was about 150 feet from the tracks.)

Today’s goal is to eat food that I have purchased and been carrying for the past 2-4 days!

This fella hopped onto my bike pannier as I was packing up and took some persistent encouragement to hop off!


Muse: What is an appropriate age to wed? Many tribal, religious, agriculture cultures by their mid to late teens. What does it mean that our Taker culture has such a long period of unfettered, uncoupled adulthood? How much relation to past 60 years of contraceptive development?

Muse: What would a Federal requirement that every waste receptacle have a conjoined paper & container recycling compartments mean? Every gas station that I stop at to fill water bottles, [actually, every place before and since then] a lone trash can filling up with all the plastic, tin and glass now destined for the landfill.

At Nickerson Park CG I asked at the office: “Do you have recycling for tin cans?” - surprised, the woman stammered: “Recyling?!... nnoo?”

From today’s Podcast listening: “A lie is a deliberate choice to mislead a target without any notification.” Actors deceive but you expect it when they are on stage, Poker has bluffing but it’s expected.

Saw not one, but TWO roadkilled red foxes today. It was really sad to see two such beautiful animals, smashed and dead from a vehicle.




The first one was in the first 5 miles of the day and it had happened just a few hours earlier, they were lying right in the middle of a lane of traffic and I stopped to move them into the bushes. The second was near the end of the day and it’s intestines had busted open from the heat and a swarm of flies were about it - that one I didn’t stop to move.

Had some riding company for a few miles today near Sayre with an older chap, he was celebrating his 51st birthday today and has the unenviable job of teaching 7th grade Health & Science at the local middle school.

Napped during the heat of the afternoon on a park bench in Elmira. Passed by an old General Electric plant in Corning, several acres of old concrete building foundation was visible, small sets of concrete stairs. All of it was sealed with concrete poured over it.

Camped stealth in a patch of trees behind an overflow parking lot for the High School.

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