Today was a long day of cycling, 93 miles. We began with overcast skies and hopeful that the rain would hold off until we rode into Worcester MA.There wasn't much to see on the first half of our ride out of New Hampshire. The roads were pretty good as we cycled through the countryside. Some roads were narrow lanes while others had wide shoulders to keep us out of the way of the traffic. I did see something I thought strange as we rode along, I counted at least 10 old banana peels laying in the shoulders. I was wondering what's up with that...was there a bunch of Monkeys living in the woods?? If there were, they had better to careful of the snakes.
Yep, I saw two smooched snakes today. Guess since there wasn't any rain today, they decided to venture out..big mistake on their part.
In the afternoon we rode into MA. I've seen this sign before when we rode into MA last year on my cross country trip. It was great to be in Massachusetts again. The sights changes as we cycles along, we actually saw some of the leaves had already changed and lots of Pumpkins for sales at the road side stands. I would liked to have gotten some pictures but about 3:00 with 20 miles left to go to the Hotel, the rain was back.
It started slowly then with about 10 miles left the sky opened up and poured! It made for an interesting time riding through Worcester to get to our Hotel. It was slow going but we finally made it. I immediately checked into my room, turn off the air conditioning and switched on the heat.
The ride today was about 7 hours long. That was due mostly to the rain in the afternoon and a lot of hills. It wasn't so bad going up the hills, but with the wet roads I pumped my brakes for a controlled descent, so it was slow going. We all want to know when do we reach the "flat lands"!
Tomorrow is another day and I'm hoping it's without rain, enough already. Go rain on someone else's parade! Hope you have a great evening!
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