Start: Rochester, NY
Finish: Rochester, NY
Weather: 70 degrees, overcast
Miles: 0
Distance to date: 2,613
I heeded the storm warnings of Irene today. The weather forecast in Rochester was for clouds and maybe some rain, but Syracuse, where I am headed next, was
forecast to get the tail of the storm. Since I had not taken a rain day yet, I decided better safe than drenched, so I stayed at my motel, which I like very much, had some excellent fresh corn and other goddies from the small market across the road, and enjoyed a quiet day.
It never did rain here, but it was wicked windy. What better place to weather a storm than completely out of its orb.
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Greetings reader. I am a writer, architect, cyclist and father from Cambridge, MA.
My primary blog, theawkwardpose.com is an archive of all my published writing. The title refers to a sequence of three yoga positions that increase focus and build strength by shifting the body’s center of gravity. The objective is balance without stability. My writing addresses opposing tension in our world, and my attempt to find balance through understanding that opposition.
During 2015-2106 I am cycling through all 48 mainland United States and asking the question "How will we live tomorrow?" That journey is chronicled in a dedicated blog, www.howwillwelivetomorrw.com, that includes personal writing related to my adventure as well as others' responses to my question.
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I heeded the storm warnings of Irene today. The weather forecast in Rochester was for clouds and maybe some rain, but Syracuse, where I am headed next, was
The Awkward Pose 
Don’t want to say the storm is a non-event here. Actually, a tree toppled onto a friend’s brand new car (Thom H, from Thanksgiving). But that being said, it could have been worse, fer shur. Glad to hear you made the wise decision to stay safe.
You’ve been biking just north of the territory my maternal grandfather’s family settled in the early 18th century: their original home, Connecticut, where they’d arrived in the first half of the 17th century, had become too populated, so they traveled by wagon (of course) to the western frontier, which at that time was upstate New York (Warsaw, to be exact). There are still Griffens in the area. He was born in 1892 and was the first to go to college – Rochester – where he earned an MS in chemical engineering, a field strategic enough to the country that he wasn’t drafted in WWI. We knew him as “Boy”, and having grown up farming, he always had a garden, even when he was a vice-president of National Distillers and they had an apartment in Manhattan (he grew cucumbers in a planter on the terrace). Glad the hurricane was less awful then feared, although more than awful enough for plenty of folks.
Paul,
Read your adventures through Missouri today and will comeback for more tomorrow. It was great having you stay with us in Oklahoma and I am certainly enjoying your daily comments and road insights.
Kenyon
Even God rested on Sunday, and I’m glad Paul Fallon did likewise.