Sept 10 Day 11

Sept. 22

Day 11

Alexandria Bay

Mile 101


We followed a bicycle  route today and means he longest run we had in the 100 miles was 5 miles on one road.  The route followed all the back roads it could find moving North then east and repeating at all chances.  We did pass though many town with names that doubt you will find on a map as all I could find in them were farms but here is what I can remember, Polanski, Houndsville (Nothing There NT), Houndfields, Pamela (NT), Brownsville (NT), Glen Park, ending in Alexandria Bay.




This cemetery has some famous fighters from the War Independence so it is very old.


The area clearly has Amish and Mennonite farms.  Some houses had not electricity running to them, big vegetable gardens, horses and lots of hay fields.  The land used to have a lot more farms but a lot of the fields are now fallow and over grown orchards.  The land has a lot of rolling hills and quite a few small creeks with limestone bottoms so I suspect it is not great farm land and big fields would be hard to create.  This made profitable farming today very difficult to achieve therefore many farms just closed down.  There were many barns that falling in and most homes looked like either weekend get aways or commuter homes.   


Alexandria Bay was summer resort area for the Thousand Islands.  They started to get popular in 1870 and people started to buy them up.  They build big private residential home that looked like castles and small cottages on them whenever they could.  Some became resorts while became religious retreats.  Steamboats ran mail to and from along with people.  








After arriving we toured the town.  It was like a tourist site from the the 60s.  In the town there were all the tee shirts, pizza shops, Ice cream stall and fudge store you would want to see.  Even an old 5 and 10 cent store.  We did tour the local museum and watch clips of the Formula 1 race cars here in the 60 as well as speed boat racing and ship building days in the area.  Saw boats like at the cottage in North Bay my grandfather owned as well a the same motors we ran on the older boats.  


Counts

  • hay Fields win 56 corn 46 soya 25 orchards 3 (note a lot of fallow fields and what looked like
  • abandoned orchards) harvested fields 18
  • Horse dropping on road 87+. (sometimes hard to if one or many)
  • Trump signs 5 Harris 3 (note still low and hard to find even in towns)
  • Horse 31il
  • 5 herds of cows
  • At least 7 large outside gardens
  • 2 holloween decorated yards
  • 3 trucks
  • 15 bridges
  • 3 cats (1 carrying something dead)
  • 4 people walking outside
  • 3 railroad crossings
  • 4 towns with nothing but farms in the them
  • 3 detours around road closed signs
  • 1 gravel road
  • One old mule barn
  • 7 buggy signs, 4 horse signs, and 3 snow mobile signs
  • 3 limestone homes


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