Day 8 - Waiting for the Storm

What a beautiful day of riding.  We rode from Wells, Maine to Exeter, New Hampshire, which was about 50 miles.  We rode along the Atlantic beaches of southern Maine and it was just wonderful. There were some beautiful homes and I love to smell the ocean.  There were a lot of tourists in that area, I am sure enjoying a last weekend before school starts here Monday. We then rode inland to Exeter and it will actually be a while before we are back along the Atlantic Ocean.  I was riding along at about 10:30 and saw a stand selling lobster rolls.  On the coast in Maine you see these for sale all over the place and decided I better try a “Maine lobster roll” before we left Maine.  They toast a bun and put pieces of cold lobster in and give you a container of butter to drizzle over it.  They also give you a side of coleslaw and it was actually pretty delicious.  Wish you were all here to enjoy it with me.

The weather was beautiful as well.  It was slightly overcast all day, but until now (about 5:30) it didn’t rain all day.  It is slightly sprinkling outside now, but it doesn’t look like hurricane weather at all.  They are saying the storm should go over this area at about 10:00 am tomorrow.  We are staying in the Hampton Inn in Exeter and are here just to wait out the storm.  We won’t be going anywhere tomorrow and hopefully will leave Monday to continue our journey.  It looks like we will not be going to Boston because of the time that we must wait for this storm to pass.  I was looking forward to seeing Boston as there is a lot of history there that I wanted to see.

I am rooming with John who is from London.  He has done many of these types of trips before.  He rode the Pacific Coast and the Tetons to the Pacific coast in this country and has cycled Tibet, Pakistan, Laos and a bunch of other countries that I don’t remember.  He pretty much goes on one each year. His wife works for Harvard in Boston and teaches animation.  If you want to google Ruth Lingford, you can see some of her work.  The way John puts it, she does “feel bad” films, so be careful if you want to watch any of them.

Tomorrow I will let you know about the storm.