Let the Good Times Roll - Biking the Empire State Trail to a Wedding
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- In August 2023, Shep and I biked the Empire State Trail across New York to a friend's wedding! We were poorly prepared and it didn't go as expected... but we still had a blast :D
A big congratulations to Jessie + Zach for being the reason this trip happened!
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Trip write-up: www.reginayan.me/projects/emp...
Learn more about the Empire State Trail: empiretrail.ny.gov/
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Great video, Regina! And thanks for the East Coast Greenway shoutout.
You're a great storyteller! This makes me want to ride the Empire State Trail.
Well done great video. I hope Shep manages to ride many adventures with you
What a beautiful adventure. Thanks for the tip of traveling east on the trail
Wow this is very awesome!
You and Shep are absolute troopers!
Planning to do the reverse of this ride this summer! I live right near that tasty gelato place you mentioned, it is the best!
Thanks for watching, and enjoy your ride (and gelato)!
Hey Regina, thanks for the great story! I really enjoyed your story telling that brought back memories of my ride of the Erie Canal and Empire State Trail. Fortunately we cycled the Canal trail West to East. Either way it's a great ride. Good to hear that you're working with the ECG. Thanks again and all the best, Steve
Steve! Thank you so much for the kind words!! Love your content as always (I watched your Empire State Trail video right before we took off) and am continuously inspired by you. Wishing you and Jan the best.
Superb trail
YAY new video finally, i've watched your first video countless times and have used it for a source of inspiration when i'm about to go on solo bike adventure. please PLEASE continue sharing your cycling experiences, you are an awesome story teller! greetings from the philippines!
Thank you so, so much for your kind words!! I'll definitely be posting more (and I won't take 2 years next time hahaha)
Great job! Let us know if you ever bike through Middlebury Vermont!
I love the pencil-bag / id-lanyard idea!
Very nice. Take care.
Great video, thanks! I rode the same route but the tailwind route, Buffalo to New York City, at the end of crossing the States. I almost decided to go a more direct route from Ohio, but fortunately I didn't! It really blew my mind, there I was thinking the US didn't have any decent cycling infrastructure. The Ohio to Erie trail was excellent too!
@@blahqwe oooh I actually have not looked into the Ohio to Erie trail ride, thanks for the rec! Crazy how many rail trails are hanging out around here
So glad you posted another video!! And I know there will be more to come. (Shep is a legend for what looks like tevas on his first century?!).
literally his first century!! He reeeaaallly doesn't like sweaty feet haha!
Cute video! Kismet that this showed up today as having a HH with Biking friends today and my buddy Steve wants to ride the Erie Canal. Best wishes from MN
I am planning on riding from NYC to Toronto this summer. Gonna shoot for 60-80 a day. Didnt know about the free camp sites! Good info! Hope the headwind isnt too bad. I just would like to have Toronto as an end reward since I have never been. Gonna ship my bike back and fly back to philly
This is so incredible! Thank you for posting the video. I love the trip and narrative style.
Love this video. Thanks so much for sharing
Great video! It's clear that you and Shep are great together. I hope to see you both in another cycle romp in the future. 😊
amazing and very inspirational
Amazing video! Your channel is about to explode!
splendid video. Love the way you two managed to balance your different paces!
Great adventure, thanks for sharing! Following the canal east is not only with the wind but downhill all the way. It makes sense. Water flows downhill.
Love this video & the one of you doing the East Coast Greenway from Maine to FL. Have to say hearing the drill made my heart skip a beat because I was afraid Shep was drilling holes in the bike frame to save weight (this was a thing with 70's steel bikes & would be a disaster w/today's bikes). LOL.
Anyway, incredible trips. So jealous. Have you written these up in additional detail anywhere?
Yeah, we've got aluminum bikes so drilling would be AWFUL haha! Thanks for watching, and I have a brief write-up here: www.reginayan.me/projects/empirestatetrail.html
So what is Shep's hack to bodge ratio? I think he might be batting 100!
Haha! He's always macgyvering things, some may be bodges but the ones in the video have gotta be hacks because some opportunistic stranger decided they were worth stealing RIP
Was the trail from Albany to penn Station is it all paved trail ?? Thanks for the great video
Thanks for watching! It's not completely paved - for example the first shot at the beginning of the film is from Rosendale (on the Wallkill Valley rail trail portion - empiretrail.ny.gov/poughkeepsie-albany/new-paltz-south-kingston) and you can see it's crushed stonedust. Feels a little gravelly, but our 28mm wheels had no trouble.
You could probably stretch a video to an hour. With more trial videos.
Tortoise and the Hare
so impressive youre able to do that high of milage day after day, so crazy strong. But I am embarrassed for your boyfriend, you can do better. He needs to man up and learn some grit, it was pretty pathetic watching him.