Hey guys. Thanks for the offers you made. I actually saw it while on the road and wrote a reply. I was going to tell you where we were actually heading (and some other great info) and then the hotel i-net kicked me off. Then I lost my post. Since I only had my phone I didn't feel much like re-typing my post.
As you guys know the weather wasn't great. It was really bad at the beginning of the trip. Here's what we were supposed to do.
Friday - Pittsboro, NC to Winchester, VA
Saturday - Winchester, VA to Binghamton, NY
Sunday - Binghamton, NY to Burlington, VT
Monday - Burlington, VT to Augusta, ME
Tuesday through Thursday - make our way back to NC.
But what did we do? Well day one we went on the skyland drive in VA. The fog was awful... couldn't see but about 20 ft in front of me. This is not good on a mountain road that you don't know
And not only was it foggy outside, but my "no fog" visor fogged up. This meant I had to open it up and let my glasses get all wet from the mist and hard to see through. This put us a little behind. We made it to Waynesboro, VA.
Saturday we hit more fog in the mountains in PA. So we hit the interstate hoping it'd be better... it wasn't. Only difference was now we were going 60-70 mph in a straight-ish line. We took a stop off at Gettysburg, PA for a bit. That was pretty nice. Wish we had more time there. By the end of the day we were about an hour shy of Binghamton, NY.
Sunday was HORRIBLE. It was cold and raining. We called it a day about two hours short (at 3:30 pm) of burlington, vt. in Glens Falls, NY. My brother-in-law was so wet and cold that he could just squeeze his fist and water would pure out of his gloves.
Monday started out bad. Bad enough that we almost just turned back south. But about 30 minutes down the road it stopped raining. It was cloudy, but livable. But we lost enough time that rather than going through the northern parts of VT and NH we went south over to Portsmouth, NH.
This was a good day. VT is an AMAZING state. If it wasn't for the winters I'd be very tempted to move there. For lunch we stopped at a little corner-store in Hillsboro, NH for lunch. Great people and great burgers. Once we got to Portsmouth, NH we went into the southern most part of ME. We went and got some lobster for dinner. Because of the rain we didn't get many pics, but i did snap this one.
from then on it was heading down i-95 to make it home. this lead to riding through NY City on i-95. that was fun. The rest of the trip was pretty uneventful. The final leg of the trip put us going down the Delmarva peninsula so I could drop in and see my mom for a bit in Chesapeake, VA. Pretty cool going over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge tunnel on the bike. Even cooler that my dad happened to be in town and I got to see them both. My parents are split and he lives out of state - totally wasn't expecting that.
Anyway, there were some pictures taken. When I get a hold of them I might add to this post. In general, it was a great trip. I'd like to do it again in the future. New England is a great part of the country. I'm not envious of your winters, but I am envious of your roads and scenery.
