Despite the persistent rain, yesterday -- Sunday -- turned out interesting.
The rain. We've had rain 6 of the 9 days so far and today -- Monday -- offers at least some showers.
We're in Titusville, PA, the birthplace of the oil industry. The Drake discovery well completely changed the American industrial landscape. Coming from Kulgore, I'll consider this a pilgrimage. Maybe. Sort of.
-- We blew by the Erie Canal yesterday, the remnant from America's westward expansion. The canal linked the coast to the Great Lakes and made agriculture in the Northwest territories, now the upper midwest, practical.
It was on my to-do list since childhood but a deluge is not good for sightseeing.
-- I've seen thousands of US and Canadian communities from the back of a bIke and I maintain a list of places I'd like to come back to.
Corning NY is now on that list . Downtown is an assemblage of preserved buildings from the 19th century.  There's the Rockwell art museum, Corning Glass and graceful lawns shaded by elms and locusts.
-- Google it: 1000 Islands.  Awesome.
-- Today, Jeff heads home by way if US 6 and Terry and I start working our way south. In the rain.