Author: neil
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Yarmouth, NS to Port Clyde, NS
Rain started in the early morning hours, and it was still raining when it was time to get up and moving. It had been in the forecast, but the rain’s actual presence, falling from the sky, revealed that we had been in denial about it. We knew the difficulty and abject unhappiness morning-rain-in-camp brings to…
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Yarmouth, NS
Day 2 Like our Chicago->Skaneateles segment, the Skaneateles->Mount Desert Island segment we just completed is our second time at it. So again I can do a statistical comparison. Unlike Chicago->Skaneateles, we intentionally took a much different route for this “repeat”, going “direct” over the mountains of New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire, rather than going…
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Ellsworth, ME, USA to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
We’re going to Canada today! This actually came as a bit of a surprise to Rett yesterday; even though it had been our goal for a long time, I do admit that it did feel a bit like we were just stumbling unprepared down the final steps across the “border”. But unlike crossing into Mexico,…
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Palmyra, ME to Ellsworth, ME
Temperatures had ramped up again, so we’d be facing the upper 80s, with the return of humidity. Just walking our bikes from the air-conditioned motel room to the air-conditioned Burger King for breakfast was enough to make it not particularly exciting to go out again. The relative cool showing in the forecasts for Nova Scotia…
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Norridgewock, ME to Palmyra, ME
We woke up to more blueberry pancakes, each tossed to us by Dave straight off the griddle. Ann left early to go get dirty again, and I felt bad that we delayed Dave getting out of the house to get his brand-new recumbent e-bike checked out (that came disappointingly with a problem he needs fixed…