week 8 (432 mi) to Lake Placid, NY

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Niagara Falls from American side

$"Maid of the Mist" boat ride\n(doesn't go UNDER the falls)$

upstream rapids in Niagara River

Minolta Tower (lollipop shape) in the middle of skyline

looking downstream to Rainbow Bridge

looking downstream from Minolta Tower at breakfast

upstream from Minolta Tower

upstream from Rainbow Bridge

the YWCA after Sue helped arrange the $6M financing

in the lobby

Matthew & Sue in the lobby

Greek Revival style farmhouse with pebble-array facing

Erie Canal goes through Eagle Harbor, NY

house in Albion, NY

the Swan Library & First Presbyterian Church

Orleans County Clerk's Office

Courthouse with Clerk's Office

in Albion, NY

taking on the locals in Sodus, NY

Alan & Tom, victorious Team CycleAmerica

in Wolcott, NY

ditto

Marsha

Libby

Queen Anne's Lace

Batchelor's Button

Sackets Harbor, NY

reenactors of 1812 soldiers with muskets

hotel from ~1815

$1892 observation/water tower\n(earlier, water was hand-caried from Lake Ontario)$

also in Sackets Harbor

Lennie

Art

Libby & Rose (#2)

Jerry

Brittney

Gregg (Minneapolis)

Kent

Houghton College "campus" overnight: Star Lake, NY

our most crowded (&damp) indoor sleeping

Rose(s, #2 & #1)

boat launch & beaver dam, Adirondacks

$RR station & museum: Lake Placid, NY\nnow running 3 excursion trains/day to Lake Saranac$