Two days crossing Vermont and two days crossings New Hampshire. Hills and more hills!
August 8 - 34 miles to Woodstock. Short day and late start due to fog. We waited about 2 hours for the fog to lift. Woodstock was a busy tourist town but we did manage to go to the brewery in the afternoon.
August 9 - 77 miles to Naples, Maine. The last of the big hills were today. They were not as bad as we thought they would be but it took us a couple of hour to climb. Then additional hills awaited us. Then Russ, Susie and I missed a turn and our adventure took off. First, we had to climb the steepest hill that I have ever seen. We had to walk the top part. I can't imagine any cyclist biking to the top. There was a fruit stand at the top and that is when we realized that we had missed the turn. They gave us new directions but somehow that way added a minimum of 7 miles to our already long day. A passing driver, who lived in the area, told us of a shortcut that we could take but it was unpaved. We decided to give it a try and it was so bad that we all had to walk our bikes for at least 2 miles through the forest to reach a paved road. By then it was close to 4:00 and we started the morning at 7:00 am. Needless to say, when we arrived in camp after 5, we were dog tired.
August 10 - 57 miles to Brunswick. Looking at our profile on the map it looked like we were pretty much done with hills. Boy were we wrong! Shows some small hills that we assumed would be easy, wrong again. The small hills seem to be the hardest. It is because they are so steep getting to the top. The most interesting site of the day was passing through the Shaker Village. Talked to a few folks there and learned that there are only 3 Shakers left in the world. One man in his 80's and two women in their 70's. Don't know what happens when those folks die. The village was beautiful and so well maintained. We didn't get to visit the museum because it was Sunday and they were closed.
Three more days to Bar Harbor.
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