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VT 251 Cycling Adventure:Day 32 and Town 251!
The one final town of Royalton, then back home to Bethel. 12 miles Total miles on the trip 1651 All 251 cities and towns in Vermont I was able to take some time on the morning of Day 32 to stretch my aching body and visit with my Barnard hosts. I had never met Peter…
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VT 251 Cycling Adventure:Day 31
Sharon, Pomfret, Woodstock, Bridgewater, Plymouth, and Barnard. 53 Miles Total to Date: 1639 miles and 250 of 251 cities and towns in Vermont. I had a nice evening visiting longtime friends. One is 97 years old and still shovels the snow out of her driveway and mows her lawn. The other is in her eighties…
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VT 251 Cycling Adventure:Day30
Ludlow, Cavendish, Weathersfield, Reading, West Windsor, Windsor, Hartland, Hartford, and Norwich Miles: 55 Total to Date: 244 cities and towns and 1,586 miles. Last night I stayed with Brooke (“B”) Decker, who is the state’s bee inspector. We shared a lovely evening talking about hiking, biking, and bees. She had seen me weeks ago when…
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VT 251 Cycling Adventure:Day29
Windham, Athens, Grafton, Rockingham, Westminster, Springfield, Baltimore, Chester and Andover Miles: 67. I lost track of the dirt/paved ration. Fifty percent up and 50 percent down! Total to Date: 235 towns and 1,531 miles. It seems that more happened today than I can fully write about in this blog. Some will have to wait for…
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VT 251 Cycling Adventure:Day28
Dummerston, Putney, Brookline, Newfane, Dover, Stratton, Wardsboro, Jamaica and Townshend Miles: 57, at least half on dirt Total to Date: 226 towns and 1,464 miles. I was lucky to have my friends Chim and Madeline once again offer to carry my gear for me. They were enroute from Mass to Maine and made a winding…
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VT 251 Cycling Adventure:Day27
Marlboro, Whitingham, Halifax, Guilford, Vernon, and Brattleboro 38 miles, all but about 9 on dirt Total to Date: 217 towns and 1,407 miles. After my wet, cold day I spent a warm night in a quaint inn that my good friend Karen Deets arranged for me. What a relief not to be camping in that…
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True Colors; Reflections when Biking in the Fall
The leaves out here are gorgeous. I am bombarded with new brilliance at every bend in the road. Anyone who has seen Vermont in autumn knows what I am talking about. Every night when I begin to fall asleep I see reds, oranges, and yellows behind my closed eyelids. I was thinking the other day…
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VT Cycling Adventure: Days 25–26
Woodford, Searsburg, Readsboro, Stamford, Somerset and Wilmington. (Only 40 towns to go!) Miles: 52 (5 on Saturday and 47 on Sunday). Total to Date: 211 towns and 1,369 miles. I spent last night in an apartment in an art gallery in North Bennington! It is a renovated old mill building that reminds me of a…
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VT 251 Cycling Adventure:Day24
Winhall, Manchester, Sunderland, Arlington, Shaftsbury, Glastenbury, Bennington and Pownal Miles: 46 Totals to Date: 205 towns and 1,317 miles. I am writing this on Day 25, which was supposed to be rainy all day. I think the rain is more on and off, but based on the forecast, I decided to take the day mostly…
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VT 251 Cycling Adventure:Day23
Dorset, Mount Tabor, Danby, Wallingford, Clarendon, Shrewsbury, Mount Holly, Weston, Londonderry, Landgrove, and Peru Miles: 53 Total to Date: 197 towns and 1,270 miles. Today has been a day of variations. It included some real ups and downs, both inside and out. I had some relatively flat riding along a river, but also a hill…
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