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Pedaling from Buffalo to Albany-By KEVIN FRYLING, University of Buffalo Reporter Staff Writer

If the secret to the right career is doing something you enjoy so much you would do it even if it weren't your job, then Amy Pedlow just might be pedaling down the right track.

As a university police officer who patrols campus on a bicycle, Pedlow can ride as many as 25 miles in a single day. But that hasn't stopped her from setting aside more than a week during each of the past five years to participate in "Cycling the Erie Canal," an eight-day, 400-mile bicycle tour from Buffalo to Albany sponsored by Parks & Trails New York. This year's event was held July 8-15..
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Bicycling the Erie Canal Corridor - by John J. Rashak

On a Sunday morning  last July, I joined about 400 bicyclists in the Fifth Annual Bike Tour along the Erie Canal - a cycling sojourn along the Erie Canal from Buffalo to Albany. The eight-day bicycling touring event covered approximately 400 miles of paved roads and trails arcing through upstate New York. .
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Cycling the Erie Canal...A Rider's Reflection on his Weeklong Adventure - by William Tuthill

Who hasn't heard of the Erie Canal, the one that is celebrated in song and story?

It was not until I recently bicycled the length of the old canal, however, that I began to understand why it matters so much in American history. Seeing it up close, from the all-revealing perspective of a bicycle seat, made it clear - along with the daily lectures, museum visits and tours along the way. . .
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Eight Days Navigating on the Erie Canal- A Mega-Trail Journey - by Robert Searns

It was the "Moon Shot" of the 19th Century. When first conceived in the 1600's, the notion of digging a waterway connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes was almost incomprehensible. This was a time when horse drawn wagon was the most advance means of overland travel. In 1816, undaunted, Dewitt Clinton and other visionaries of his time decided it could be done. . .
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