The weather pattern remains stuck in place, so we have our third day of good northeast winds and our third day of clouds, but, our first morning drizzle. At first it was light enough that it wasn’t even making noise on the tent and didn’t really make anything wet. Still, we moved everything under a… Read more…

There was a slight chance of rain last night, so we bagged up the bikes. It was unnecessary (all was dry and 68F when we woke up), and worse, dirty prints showed that some asshole critter had been on Rett’s bags, and torn tiny holes in the rain cover around the kitchen pannier. No idea… Read more…

Today was relatively short, simply because that’s the spacing between state parks here on the Connecticut coast. Well, actually I had been debating some alternative routings that would move us east faster, but then I remembered, why? We’re not yet needing to flee south from cold weather (we’ll see if that attitude bites us in… Read more…

On our way out of New Haven, we crossed Yale’s campus one final time. We also crossed I-95 for the sixteenth time in our last three rides, but that would also be the final time (for today). Here the Interstate runs a bit more inland, so we were able to do the winding-around-the coast thing… Read more…

We’re spending two-and-a-half weeks in New Haven because we need a break. Wait, what? Haven’t we just been on “a break” for like two months as we’ve been visiting with family and friends? Well, it turns out that in some ways, being near people we know makes us more busy that we normally feel, even… Read more…

We didn’t have far to ride to our afternoon check-in AirBNB, so we were able to take a lazy morning. A slow wake-up, Steve had coffee on, and then we all walked over to the Harborside Cafe for breakfast. Not actually beside any harbor, it’s instead an awesome, bustling, community-oriented place on a residential corner.… Read more…