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Thanks April, looks like fun! I'm meeting a friend that lives there so hopefully he'll be able to show me around a bit.

Alright, I made it to Albany! Nice little city. Empire Square is pretty fab, what with the crazy bombastic monumental Rockefeller modernist buildings, and all. The Egg is a site to behold, as well.

Here's the route I've taken so far:

Day 1 Montreal to Brossard (bike malfunctions prevented me from going further)
Day 2 Brossard to the US border.
Day 3 US border to Plattsburgh where I met up with friends.
Day 4 Plattsburgh to Elizabethtown - wonderful place in the Adirondacks - stayed in hotel owned by a nice drunk Irishman,
Day 5 Eliazbethtown to Ticonderoga - This was an insane route (the #7) - up and down mountains the entire way. Fucking exhausting. Ti's a bit of a hole, but the owners of an ice-cream shop let us camp for free on their lawn.
Day 6 Ticonderoga to Fort Ann - Fort Ann is full of hillbillies. I asked a guy what the main industry in the town is and he answered "Not much of noth'n ... stores, I guess."
Day 7 Fort Ann to Albany - our longest day yet - 100 km.

Brief observations:

1. very economically depressed region - I've never seen so many closed up shops and houses with piles of random crap stored everywhere.
2. everyone we met was extremely friendly and helpful.
3. on the other hand, everyone we met has been extremely fat. It's shocking really. Even the kids are fat.
4. we biked through Albany's hood. I've never been gawked at so much.
5. upstate New York is extremely whitebread
6. loved the old colonial architecture
7. Labatts Blue is a very popular imported beer.
8. it rains a lot here in the morning and late afternoon. Biking in the rain sucks balls.

Next rest-stop Syracuse!

Forgot to say that I went to the State Capitol today and sat in the observation gallery for a series of votes. All the representatives were talking and checking their Twitter and there were two women doing arts and crafts of some sort (literally knitting things and putting paste on construction paper for some enigmatic reason).