We had a nice chat with some folks, including the pastor and his wife who were recently called to this church. The pastor is originally from Skowhegan, Maine. We declined an invitation to a church outing and set out for what we hoped would be a relaxing day of biking. We briefly visited Fort Ticonderoga, which dates back to the 1700’s and the American Revolution.
This picture of Lake Champlain was taken on the Fort grounds. We then boarded a ferry to head across a narrow portion of Lake Champlain. This signaled our return to New England as we rolled our bikes onto Vermont soil. Check out the ferry--it wasn’t fancy, but it was very efficient and right on time!
The biking turned out to be anything but relaxing. The roads that we traveled in Vermont today were very rough and of course included some hills.
We’re told that tomorrow’s ride is on a newly paved road. The temperature was very hot, in the 80’s. And we were simply exhausted from some long and very productive riding days in the last week in New York. So we decided to end the day short and get an early start tomorrow. We will be facing a large climb through Middlebury gap early in the ride. While passing through Middlebury today, we received a minor adjustment to our brakes from a bike mechanic and some assurance that we had enough brake pad to finish our ride.We used the early stop to our riding today to plan our remaining itinerary. If all goes well, we plan to arrive in Portland on Wednesday. The goal would be to arrive early enough in the day to take a bus back to Boston later in the day.
