Moosewood

Originally Posted October 5, 2004 by Mags

Sunday was an effortless, smooth ride of 100 miles. We rode from Lantz Corner, Pennsylvania to Lawrenceville, PA among hills with leaf colors and near a river for most of the way. It was mostly downhill. In Lantz Corner, a lady that we'd met at the United Methodist chicken and biscuit dinner let us stay at her motel so we felt all rested up. For dinner, we ate at Patty T's in Lawrenceville where they served a delicacy that we thought was unique to Utah- pistachio pudding/marshmallow/pineapple delight. We also had some homemade blueberry pie. We found a pleasant camping spot at the Cowanesque Dam overlook. On Monday we finally found a mechanic, Rich, from Gear-To-Go Tandem Bicycles in Elmira, New York who helped us fix the squeak (knock on wood). It hasn't come back after 35 miles of riding. We reached Ithaca, NY last night and dined at the Moosewood Restaurant (yes, the one that's famous for all those cookbooks). It was good food but we felt the need for a little more protein a.k.a cheese, butter ,cream and turkey. A woman (Charlene) saw us in the Ithaca Commons and offered us a place to stay in a vacant apartment attached to her house. She even set a table and put breakfast food in the fridge. It was so nice to be out of the cold and to take a shower. Ithaca reminds us of a smaller Seattle- lots of hippy types, street waifs and academics all mixed together. It's a fun town. 

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