22 July 2007

One consequence of not having internet access is an earlier start; I was on the road before 0730. And it was downright chilly, to the point where I wore jeans instead of shorts, and made sure all my velcro was closed.
I stopped and took a picture of the "Welcome..." sign when I crossed into Vermont; it's the last of the lower 48 I hadn't yet ridden a motorcycle in.

Traffic wasn't particularly heavy anywhere, but they don't tend to speed, so my "destination time" didn't change much. And I'm getting really good mileage, about 47 on the one full tank I ran through.

Before that, though ... one strange bit of routing had me taking 2B instead of staying on 2, just west of I-91. (Looking at it on a map, it looks shorter, but I doubt it's faster.) When I got back to 2, I looked back at the oncoming traffic on 2, and then accelerated smartly to make sure I stayed out of anybody's way. When I looked up, there was a cop with a radar gun waving me over. Wrote me for 46 in a 30. Shoulda stayed on 2; I'd been pretty careful about dropping my speed as soon as I saw a limit sign, and I doubt I'd have been speeding through there. (They didn't lack for victims, though...)

I continued to be cautious for the rest of the day. Which went on longer then I'd hoped, I'd planned to stop around 1600, but no lodging showed up until I got to Lincoln, where I'd identified a couple of possibilities in MapSource. Took the first motel I came to, instead ($58--with Wi-Fi), and walked a half mile for groceries ($13).

States: Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine.
445 GPS miles (7602 total), 48.0 moving average, 100 max (nope-wonder what's glitching?).
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