USA coast to coast stage 36 Erie PA to Buffalo NY

 148KM, 849M climbed, 6 hours 18 minutes 

Total 4,721KM, 27,338M climbed, 192 hours 29 minutes 

A trip along the shore of Lake Erie beckoned today but the ride turned out not to be the most pleasurable one of the trip.  

The first 40 miles were fine although rain was starting to threaten, during this part of the ride we also crossed into our 12th different state, New York, only 3 more to go.

After the first rest stop the heavens opened.  Also the road had been recently relaid and a side affect of this were that there were very small flints by the side of the road which caused almost all the riders to have punctures.  After about 1,500 miles of puncture free riding I had 4 punctures in the next 20 miles.

As a result despite leaving Erie at 7:00 it was almost 16:00 when I arrived at the hotel in Buffalo.  

We have now cycled nearly 3,000 miles and as well as cycling across the USA on day 3 we were about 150 miles from the Mexico border and today we finished within touching distance of Canada.

Given that our hotel was about 20 miles from Niagara Falls I was lucky that one of the other riders had a hire car and was prepared to drive to the Falls.  I had never seen the Falls and they were a magnificent site and a great end to a hard day.

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