Notice.: Time - includes a short stops for traffic lights, a map´s study ..)
| Day | 22. |
| Date | 25.9.1999 |
| Mileage | 55 |
| Time | 5:30:00 |
| Average speed | 10 |
| Total mileage | 843 |
After a short shower I am entering the state of New York. In the information office I fount out that the highest mountain is about 80 miles away. I have time so I change direction from south to north-west. By noon I am entering Adirondacks. I have a little rest in beautifully Keene Valley. Traffic is getting stronger. It is still a tourist season here. The sky is pushing clouds away by sunset and Mt. Marcy is getting to be visible. Weather is supposed to be nice tomorrow.
| Day | 23. |
| Date | 26.9.1999 |
| Mileage | 9 |
| Time | |
| Average speed | |
| Total mileage | 825 |
Whole night is my tent shower by moonlights. I think I bought a good sleeping bag. I am not cold but I am not warm too. With first sunshine, I stand up. I am shocked by the bike covered by iced. The tent is also cover be iced. Later I was told that it had been just 26 F.
At Indian Falls I and one guy are going down a rock in order to take pictures of waterfalls. We are talking just a little. He is here with his girlfriend. When I meet them later again I am asking if I could see their map. We are talking again and suddenly the girl says: " Řekni mu, že je to jen 7 mil" I could not believe to my ears. Here so far in nor then the USA, far from for Europeans famous places, I meet Libora a Jitku from my Country. Rest of the day I spent with them.
I am a few times greeted by people who saw me on the road yesterday. I met also here a young guy Bill Burrell. After he discovered what I am doing here he invited me to visit his studio.
| Day | 24. |
| Date | 27.9.1999 |
| Mileage | 88 |
| Time | 6:30:15 |
| Average speed | 13 |
| Total mileage | 940 |
It was a sunny day and I did my speed record - 39 miles per hour - by 7 miles long downhill to Keene Valley.I swim in Schroon Lake, but it is already very cold so I stayed just as long as necessary. By evening I reached tourists resort Lake George. Here is Fort William Henry - place where is situated novel Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper.
| Day | 25. |
| Date | 28.9.1999 |
| Mileage | 40 |
| Time | 3:10:15 |
| Average speed | 13 |
| Total mileage | 980 |
Fort William Henry gates are openings at 10:00 and I can get in. After the visit, I am traveling along bikeways that are going along road 9 (plus different letters) as far as NYC. This cyclists paths runs along Hudson River. After stop at public library at Glens Falls , kind black man working in city's park took care over my bike, I am going to visit my new friend Bill and his studio. Jitka and Libore are coming later evening.
| Day | 26. |
| Date | 29.9.1999 |
| Mileage | 13 |
| Time | |
| Average speed | |
| Total mileage | 993 |
We are visiting all together Bill's friend Christopher Pierce. Batten Kill - river, where we drove our canoe. Bill showed us also a place used by hippies in 60th.
I am asking for a drinking water about 3 miles in front of Saratoga Springs. Lady asked me where I was from,... her father was Slovak - second generation. The night was supposed to be rainy so I stayed overnight at them.
| Day | 27. |
| Date | 30.9.1999 |
| Mileage | 54 |
| Time | 4:15:45 |
| Average speed | 11 |
| Total mileage | 1047 |
Shortly before noon I am leaving to Saratoga Springs - a small town with famous spa. This town was used by wealthy Newyorkers as recreation resorts. I continue along road No. 9 to Albany - the capital of New York State. The road is four ways but the road's shoulder is marked like bikeways. It has just one fault - a few miles before Albany this wide shoulder disappears and you have to continue at the same strip-like cars. I was lucky that it was 5 p.m. and all traffic was in the opposite direction.