We are currently cooling our heels, resting our butts, and generally having a good 'ol time while visiting our friends Barry & Gretchen in New Hampton, NH. Chris and Barry were on the waterfront staff and lived together in a tent at Boy Scout camp in 1969 and all 4 of us have shared many laughs since then!!!
About 5 days ago we took a small cable ferry from Ticonderoga, NY, across Lake Champlain , to Vermont. The farms were beautiful, the hills were steep, and some of the roads were in awful condition. We cranked our way up a big hill and rode through Middlebury College. It was suddenly quite urban and we had to stop for pedestrians in cross walks. The next day we rode over "Middlebury Gap" a 1500 foot climb with some steep sections, but it wasn't so bad, and then we cruised, trending downhill for the rest of the day. We camped at a funky "campground" along the White River that night. There was no drinking water so Gunga Din (aka, Dora the Explorer) made a water run to a farm about a mile away. We were the only campers but ther was another couple who were living in an RV for the summer.
Speaking of summer, it is slipping away and lately the mornings have been on one side or the other of 40 degrees. So....we left our mapped route on Saturday and rode 63 miles to our friends' home. Our current thinking is that we will head out tomorrow toward Portland, Maine, to visit more friends. Most likely we will declare success (Portland is on the coast so we will have biked from the Pacific to the Atlantic), skip Bar Harbor, and start biking south.
Our journey continues to amaze and delight, and, as someone almost said, it's not just about the bike!
Got caught up with you adventures tonight - great fun reading! You are missing horrible winds and rain here. We are off to France soon for a walk on the Via Podensis - French part of the Camino to Santiago - starting at Le Puy and seeing how far we can get with our limited time. Safe biking!
ReplyDeleteLove,B.
p.s. Our next book is "The Hobbit."