Category: USA

  • Palmyra, ME to Ellsworth, ME

    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…

  • Norridgewock, ME to Palmyra, ME

    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…

  • Dixfield, ME to Norridgewock, ME

    Dixfield, ME to Norridgewock, ME

    Despite yesterday’s great day of bike touring, Rett still had bad associations with US-2 that made it less-than-appetizing to continue on that route. So we’d been trying to decide for days whether to stay on US-2 through Bangor to get to Bar Harbor, or get off that highway and take a more-southern, Maine-state-highway route that…

  • Gorham, NH to Dixfield, ME

    Gorham, NH to Dixfield, ME

    We got breakfast at our familiar McDonald’s on our way out of town, completing our unholy trifecta of all three daily meals in three days. Recommendation: if you eat at McDonald’s, get their app! They throw such deals at you for using it that we spent less for dinner and breakfast combined than we did…

  • North Concord, VT to Gorham, NH

    North Concord, VT to Gorham, NH

    With the call of loons over the pond at night, sleep was cool and easy in our own WarmShowers bunker, and our hosts were up before us when we joined them in the main house to put together some breakfast. After some more routing discussion, and a tour of our bikes, we were on our…