Website promotes bicycle tours

Website promotes bicycle tours

ALBANY, N.Y.

There’s more than one way to travel the Erie Canal and it doesn’t have to be by boat.

A new website, www.CycletheErieCanal.com, is all about cycling the mostly flat 360-mile trail that runs alongside the famous waterway in upstate New York between Albany and Buffalo.

The website includes rider reviews, an interactive map, places to stay and suggestions for things to do and see along the way, from the Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown to the Susan B. Anthony House in Rochester.

The canal was built to transport goods by boat in the early 1800s.

Geography quiz

Q. The Vinson Massif is the highest point on which continent?

A. Antarctica. Mount Vinson is about 16,050 feet high and is about 750 miles from the South Pole, near the base of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Museum to show Knievel collection

TOPEKA, Kan.

Topeka officials say a museum dedicated to daredevil Evel Knievel will open in Topeka.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the Evel Knievel museum will be located at the Topeka Harley Davidson and will house the largest collection of Knievel’s possessions.

City officials said in an announcement last week that the museum will include a dozen jackets, six bikes, a Mack truck and pinball machines. The Evel Knievel Museum at Historic Harley-Davidson is expected to open by next summer.

Knievel is known for several stunts, including jumping the fountains at Caesar’s Palace and the Snake River Canyon. Knievel died at age 69 in 2007 in Florida.

Secrets revealed

We all have habits we prefer to keep classified, but as people travel the globe on summer vacations, a new survey released by Travelzoo, a global Internet media company, reveals the dirty little secrets of travelers across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Grabbing extra hotel toiletries ranks as the most common travel secret for Americans (69 percent) followed by Canadians (63 percent), Chinese (61 percent) and Britons (45 percent).

Almost two-thirds of Americans (64 percent) confessed to tinkling in the pool or ocean. The survey revealed 58 percent of Canadians, 46 percent of Britons and 44 percent of Germans admitted to the using the pool or ocean to relieve themselves. The Chinese (41 percent) were the least likely to skip the restroom.

Combined dispatches