August 17 Day 78 Lock 20 State Park (near Oriskany) 61 miles

Excellent riding along the towpath all day. Pasta for dinner. A local pair performed a free oldies concert across the lock. Cool, threatening weather kept the crowd to a couple of dozen.

I'd like to say a word about bugs. When you drive, bugs splatter on your windshield. Fortunately, they do not splatter when they hit your face while bicycling, but they can have quite an impact. Grasshoppers are the worst. They are large and they are clumsy flyers, so we have a lot of collisions. I have had a couple of feathery butterfly impacts.

Big storm during the night. Lots of rain. We saw branches or trees on the ground for many miles afterward.