Rally Across America . . . in Canada

Found something special in Buffalo today - a bicycle museum called Pedaling History! Carl, the owner let us go in and take the tour. We saw the original hobby horse, a floating bicycle, a Schwinn Black Phantom, a bike with a radio, and a bike with a sub machine gun made for WWII!

In the back of the museum, they were having a clinic for kids - "riding without training wheels." Kids everywhere, wheels rolling, and feet flying. I walked over to thank Carl for the museum visit, and almost got taken out by a rouge rider. Seeing her barreling my way, I jumped to the left . . . she went right . . . into a curb. Another kid slammed into a safetly barrel a few minutes later. Tom comments, "You can't learn to ride a bike without learning to fall."

After this, we did something funny. Rally Across America went to Canada. We checked out Niagra Falls and took a few pictures. Wow, that's a bunch of water.

Next stop was a party with the Pawelski family back in Buffalo. They had a daughter named Natalie who passed away 3 years ago from Neuroblastoma, and they contacted us after hearing about Rally Across America from the Hansons, who we met in Cape Cod.

The Pawelski's kids, Emily (9) and Eric (5), had been collecting pennies for the past few weeks, and they were excited to add to ever growing bag of change . . . which, by the way, doubled in size this evening . . .

When we got home to the Harvey's, Pete walked us out into the garage . . . 5 huge coffee cans full of pennies. It's impressive . . . and tomorrow, we're going to load 'em up, and hit the road searching for more.

~ Austin