We had breakfast at the Northwoods Hotel in downtown Lake Placid. Lake Placid is packed with tourists during the day, but early in the morning, it's nice and quiet.
Barb, Hilary, and I met Ilene and Dave at their hotel this morning and took a detour off the route. We first rode by the site of the opening ceremonies for the 1980 Winter Olympics. You can see where the flame was. The field was being used this morning for soccer.
On the way to the next site, we saw the sign for John Brown's grave. He's the abolitionist who organized a raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, but he was captured and hanged in 1859. He had earlier moved to Lake Placid to provide a place for freed slaves to do farming.
Then, we came to the Olympic Jumping Complex. There are small ski jumps that end in a swimming pool. There's also a trampoline, and some kids were practicing there.
Then, there's the Olympic Ski jump. It's so high and so steep! The pictures don't do it justice.
We rode along the Ausable River most of the day. It's so scenic!
In the tiny town of Jay, we rode through a covered bridge.
There's more scenery and Haystack Mountain in the last picture.
The Ausable Chasm was absolutely beautiful! They charge to walk down to it, but the views from the bridge were spectacular.
We passed by the same river a few more times on our way to Plattsburgh.
This is the old Lyon Street schoolhouse in tiny Peru, NY. It was built by 1866, according to a Google search I did. It's in pretty good shape!
We are now in Plattsburgh, our last night in New York. We're staying in Macdonough Hall on the SUNY campus in Plattsburgh. It's great to have a real bed and a chance to do laundry. We're also able to watch some of the Olympics on a big screen TV.
The cafeteria where we ate dinner had a sign up just for us!
Tomorrow we leave New York, take a ferry across Lake Champlain, and head into Vermont.
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