Elmira Day 🚶

Good morning Happy Tuesday! Looks like another really nice day today. Thinking of heading to Elmira area today. Steege Hill Preserve to start out the day then Tanglewood Nature Center on the opposite side of the valley, then I’m going to park 🏞️ and ride around Elmira checking out some of the Mark Twain historical stuff and then ride along the Chemung Canal bike trail 🚲 to Lowman and maybe do a dip down to Pennsylvania to explore some of the back roads, then head north through Sayre to Van Etten and get ice cream in Alpine and try to be back to camp 🏕️ by eight o’clock so I’m not driving in the pitch blackness. 🌃

Finally got to have a fire 🔥 last night and it was needed as both the trash was overflowing in my bucket 🪣and it was a cold damp evening after a shower 🌦️ passed through though I missed the rain as I was in Watkins Glen though I did feel a few rain drops when I was riding 🚲 Rock Cabin Road and over to the promande. It was a pretty good evening, fried up some zucchini and onions I got at the Burdett Exchange. Pricey but it’s a convenience for local farm produce available 9-6 pm daily. Skipped the sweet corn 🌽 because it was a buck an ear, and I was like a farm stand would be far fresher.

Swimming 🏊 was less cold than I expected at Watkins Glen though hardly pleasant with the clouds, breeze and drizzle. Hiked through the Watkins Glen Gorge then swam for a short while before getting ice cream 🍦. If I hadn’t needed ice and supplies I would have been content with staying in camp all day.