Seriously? This place is REALLY cold! Well, more cold at night, the day time is quite fantastic! Today is day 3 on the bike and Scott and I have stopped in Belfast for a quick PB and J lunch (jelly courtesy of a wonderful woman named Judy who makes art out of trash and cherry jelly as well!). You should check her out at http://www.mainedifferents.com/ as she is now one of the coolest people I know... yes Mom, you're still first!
Biking so far has been great. As you know before we started on Saturday it was raining. Well, it rained, then it rained harder, then it just kept raining. I was cold, wet, and not really looking forward to being those things on a bike, but ready to get going all the same. Lucky (really lucky) for Scott and I about 10 minutes before we took off the rain stopped, the clouds parted, and the sun found its way to us! We road to the other end of the island of Bar Harbor and camped in the very awesome Blackwoods campground.
Yesterday was the first day of real riding and it was rad! (we even saw a Maine licence plate that read RAD, which in my mind solidifies the rad day!) We road about 60 miles in wonderful blue sky, no clouds weather and made it to our sleeping area well before dark. We pitched the tent, had a lovely dinner of chili, pasta and corn and headed to the tent with some really good beer and chocolate :) We would have stayed outside, but as the sun went down the fog came in and it was, as the title of today's blog confirms, COLD!
I would like to take this moment to thank Wendy Jewsbury (sorry if I misspelled your name) for the use of her long underwear. In an effort at being a tough chick in the eyes of my boyfriend I packed little clothing just like he did... I failed to think about how COLD I get! Needless to say, the long underwear has come in major use, and I don't think I could seep at night without it!
Today we are riding west. We are in Belfast now and our goal in Newcastle. It's again a lovely day for riding, not a cloud in the sky! We have experienced our first maintenance problems though. Scott had a big gash in his back tire (fixed with a chunk of coffee bag) and one of my panniers decided to break off of the hook that keeps it on the bike! Lucky for me I am traveling with Mr. Fix-it who in not time had rigged up the bag with another screw and washer that he brought with him! Wow, he's cool!
The people here are cool, the roads suck, and the food is awesome. I think it's a good balance thus far for a great trip! Please keep thinking good thoughts, it's worked so far for the weather!
Lauren
P.S. Sorry for no pics, the library will not let me upload them :(
P.P.S. Hey friends, leave us some comments, we like hearing from you too!
Monday, September 17, 2007
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5 comments:
It sounds incredible! I hope you find a place that will let you upload pics soon! I guess our little test involving a sample size of 1 computer allowing pics to be uploaded, proved to be wrong. =/ Stay dry and keep having fun! Miss you guys.
Love,
Laurel
LMRski & Scott... what an adventure you are having!!! I liked the jelly lady and the RAD license plate blurbs. Picutres!!!! I realize libraries are a cheap way to get internet access, perhaps after you write your blurbage, find a internet cafe for uploading pics... I'll even reimburse you LMRski!
Glad to hear you two are having such a great time! I will do the naked no rain dance for you to make sure the good weather continues for you two. If you can add me to your email list that would be great, that way I can pepper you with blogs immediately after a posting! Enjoy the east coast and each others company!
Good to hear you are OK. We have been looking at the weather reports for Maine and "noticed" it gets into the 30's at night. Sleeping ia tent sounds COLD to me too. But maybe if I had Wendy's underpants....
Hang in there and you'll be ready for the winter surf water temps.
I'm loving the blog updates. Got your postcard yesterday,is Niagara Falls as romantic as they say? Stay dry and warm . Hugs Mom J.
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