Brekkie at 7:00, load at 7:45 - hurray! A later than average start to the day. Any time breakfast was later then six we were pretty happy.
Not far into our ride we encountered road construction. Seems to be pretty common in the summer. Luckily no one was working there and we could walk our bikes through without needing to detour off our route.
After many days with pretty negligible climbing, the Green Mountains gave us an opportunity to see if we still had any climbing legs. The answer would be yes although some were less thrilled than others. About 30 miles into the day we crossed into Vermont - woot woot!
It wasn't generally super steep but it was definitely UP! And not just the short rollers either. We had climbs of up to 8 miles which brought some sweet downhill stretches as well. :) We also noticed that the foliage was denser and closer to the road. Not as many cleared fields and open land as we'd seen through much of New York. Very pretty, very green, not as many long views. It was hot and humid and I was pretty drippy most of the day.
We stopped off in Wilmington at a gallery, perused the paintings, and asked for lunch recommendations. We stopped in at a little place just a mile or so down the road. Turned out to be quite tasty and although we started as a table for two, that expanded as Gene, Jane, Jed, and Vern all showed up as well.
Mile 62 brought us to the summit and the "100 Mile View". I don't know if it was 100 miles or not but you could see a long ways!
Soaking up some rays!
This was an ice cream opportunity which I turned down because we'd heard about the great ice cream place by the motel. It was another 17 miles into and through Brattleboro to the motel. Some nice downhill but still a bit of climbing to keep us awake. After checking in and cleaning up we set out for ice cream and were devastated to see that the ice cream place was closed. :( We trekked quite a ways down the street looking for other options. We eventually hit some fast food places but nothing sounded appealing. We bought ice cream bars at a gas station and called it good. That was a bit disappointing as I was really trying to take advantage of my last few days of the trip for maximum ice cream consumption. Food for the evening was a pizza party at the motel which tasted pretty good. We went to bed anticipating entering our last state of the trip the next day!
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