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​June 10...I made it to Cleveland. My checked bag did not. For 24 hours. My friend Joan and I had to make a trip back to the Amtrak Cleveland, barely caught the baggage person, and did retrieved my bag. Then, next day back to Cleveland and on to Buffalo. Destination: Lockport for the night. 
   Tough navigating out of Buffalo Amtrak to get on the Erie Canal Trail, henceforth the ECT. Got my daily allotment of bonus miles.  Thankfully my phone navigator still worked which sort of helped. 
   Arrived in Lockport, a mere 35 miles from Buffalo, the long, hard way. The local police said I could camp at the Lockport Marina on the ECT. A shelter building for tent and stuff was welcome, as heavy rain and wind was on the nighttime menu.  The marina person let me  use the shower and charge up my electronics.  The ice cream stand across the street came in quite handy.

June 7....arrived in Chicago on time but I am not leaving anytime soon for Cleveland as train is delayed 8 hours. Several hundred of us await the coming of the train. I sit on the floor with Stanley. They give us water and snacks. People ask about Stanley and where I am going. Three others are touring from Cleveland south on a 200 plus mile rail trail. The six hour train ride will land me in Cleveland at daybreak where I will ride to Berea to spend a few days with Joan before the next train to Buffalo.

June 6...In the Montana vastlands. Native American reservation homes dot the otherwise barren landscape. I wonder how different things would have been if the white man had not taken so much from them, sentencing them to this desolate existence in the outback of the US.
I talked to a border patrol agent in Havre MT. There are 30 of them patrolling miles and miles of nothing within 35 miles of the Canadian border.

Amtrak will take me and Stanley (my Kona Sutra bike) to Buffalo NY with stops in Chicago to see Ellen and Cleveland to see Joan, before hitting the pavement. How will I fit all this stuff in two panniers? Do I have the right stuff????