Travel Journal
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East Taunton, MA to Sandwich, MA
When I stuck my head outside the tent last night to make sure a critter wasn’t going at my bags (it wasn’t, I was just imagining things), I could see my breath shining in the light of my headlamp. So it wasn’t surprising that we woke to our coldest New England morning so far, 53F,… Read more…
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Warwick, RI to East Taunton, MA
We got rolling out of our motel at 9:30am, and within 15 seconds we were back on the Washington Secondary Rail Trail, heading north. The trail was again freshly repaved and perfect (except for some of the road crossings which still have concrete work to complete), and made for the easiest morning start we’ve had… Read more…
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Charlestown, RI to Warwick, RI
When we woke up it was 58 degrees and dry. Well, not “dry” dry; the wooden picnic table was still damp from the days of rain that it had been sitting under, but it was clear that the water from the sky had ceased hours ago. Which was what the forecast had predicted, and why… Read more…
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Mystic, CT to Charlestown, RI
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…
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Niantic, CT to Mystic, CT
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…
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Madison, CT to Niantic, CT
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…
