Entries Tagged as New York
Embracing a child's pace: multi-day bike trip on the Erie Canal
Posted by Jeff Olson | Tags: Deluxe , Family , New York , Routes & Rides
A couple of years ago, I took my 7 year old daughter for a multi-day
bike trip along the Erie Canal in upstate New York. I’ve done some
long-distance riding, but this trip turned into a surprising ‘short
distance’ tour. It’s a great example of how riding at a child’s pace and
having a flexible itinerary can be more fun than a carefully planned
itinerary. We planned on riding from Rochester to Lockport over several
days, and camping at the locks on the canal. Since this was our first
multi-day trip together, I had promised that we’d ride as far as she
wanted to go each day, and I’d booked a hotel with a swimming pool as a
treat when we reached our destination. We never got to that hotel, but
we had a great time travelling less than 20 miles in three days.