Buffalo to Waterloo New York

Greetings sound makers,
   We left Andre's house a little before 8 a.m. and it was chilly, some might even say it was cold. Thanks a bunch Andre! The chicken and spaghetti was the best welcome a cyclists could have.
   The ride was wonderful! It was a nice and easy 70 miles into Rochester. We took the north route and followed highway 31 all the way into the city. Along the way Matt had a phone interview with CREC (Cocino County Rural Environment Corps) so we stopped at a Tim Horton's and mapped out our destinations while Matt was busy selling himself. The CREC job is actually the same job I had to call and quit just days before it started in Flagstaff due to my flare with my arthritis. The interviewer said she remembered me because Matt mentioned he was on a cross country bike trip with me. Pretty cool stuff, lets all hope Matt gets the job!
   From the Tim Horton's we made our direct route to Sol Burrito! Sol Burrito is actually owned by the brother in law of Jim, the owner of Magpie Pizza in Oberlin Ohio! So Mike, the owner of Sol, knew we were coming and saw us when he rolled up. He waited to tell us that whatever we wanted was on the house but then he had to go get his teeth brushed at the dentist, so he left. The burritos, O O O THE BURRITOS! If you are ever in Rochester, Sol Burrito is the place to be YO! Thanks a bunch Mike, we hardly ate dinner due to the utter greatness of your food!
   We originally didn't think twice about having a place to stay in Rochester because we have a friend from our hometown there. So poor planning makes for poor execution and we rolled into Rochester the night that our friend was going to a Mumford and Sons concert. Place to stay shut down! Yet, being under these basically zero stress situations of a travelling cyclists, we kept our cool.
   We went to a bar and chatted it up with the locals while getting wifi to see if we could find a place on warmshowers. We called a bunch of people on warmshowers in the Rochester area and finally got a stronghold about 8 miles east of where we were. 70 miles plus biking around town then 8 more miles to a place to stay? Meh, too dawg gawn easy!
   80 miles later we were at Dave's house just outside of Pittsford New York! We pitched our tents in his giant backyard right next to the Erie Canal, had ourselves a warm shower, a bite to eat, then a ground to sleep on. Thanks so much to Dave for our usual short notice stay! The corn was great and the dog hungry!
   That was yesterday and today was a much shorter day, more of a rest and recuperate day. We planned on leaving Dave's around our usual 7am but due to us being lazy and sleepy and comfortable we did not get up until around 8. We packed our gear and did some great yoga. Nothing like doing yoga when it's a comfortable temperature outside. Then we went inside for some breakfast cereal and coffee. The coffee was fantastic and the cereal with blueberries was great to match. Thanks Dave for everything. We had a great time and we are proud to be your only warmshowers visitors in the last two years.
   With goodbyes done we set out on the road again at around 9:30. We got on the road we were going to take all the way to our destination of Waterloo, New York and biked for a few minutes before seeing a sports store that needed to be stopped at so Joey and Nate could pick up some frisbee golf discs for the up coming frisbee golf courses that we will no doubt run into. So while Joey and Nate contemplated frisbee  decisions I (Matt) checked out packs for my potential job out in Arizona. After they completed their frisbee purchase we continued toward the finger lakes area. Only shortly after resuming biking we stopped again as a Goodwill appeared to our left. We went in to find Joey a pair of shoes. Sounds like a job for the raincyclists! Joey found his dream pair of shoes. A pair of orange Reeboks. These shoes are so cool that we can't show them to you in fear of your eyes shooting back into your brain.
   Anyways we kept on keeping on and then came to a detour in our route. Apparently the road people thought the road wasn't good enough so they were rebuilding it. This caused us to rethink our plan, check a map, and reroute. We found a suitable route and before we knew it we missed our turn. No worries we knew that all we had to do was go east and maybe a little north and we would run into a highway or the city.
   So with a little improvisation we found our way back onto the correct highway and into a roadside vege stand. We stopped and talked with the guy setting it up and he was nice enough to give us a few sweet peppers that we just ate whole right there. I (Matt) have a few stashed in my backpack for later.
   Once in town we headed for the downtown area and started asking around for a place to get some free wifi. You know standard operating procedure for us at this point. The locals told us to go to Ciccino's for the food and the Internet. So we went on over and sat down at the bar where we are now. We ordered 50 chicken wings. Once again standard operating procedure. We ate the wings and chatted up the coolest bartender ever Kayla. We asked her where we could find a place to stay and she made some calls for us and found us a place to stay at a church about 5 miles away. Thanks Kayla for being so cool and courteous and hanging out with us and for the delicious wings.
   Now we are getting ready to find our church home for the night and maybe read or take naps or whatever we want. So as always keep along with us and tell everyone you know. By the way we have biked 2900 miles thus far and raised 4000 dollars so we need to get that ratio up more towards 3400 miles biked and 20000 dollars raised. Thats right just two more days until we hit 3000 miles!!!

DONATE HERE!!!

http://jointsinmotion2012.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=1002344&lis=1&kntae1002344=5A2BBACB38514506A91399838D08B8DF&supId=355267381

 Sol Burrito. Nate holding up his Magpies shirt.

At Ciccino's with the coolest bartender ever Kayla