We only stayed one night in VT. After about 1 mile from the start, we reached the NH State Line.
Although this picture makes NH appear flat; it is misleading! For the first 30 miles, we were constantly climbing long stretches with grades of 4-8% and for one stretch we hit over 13%. NH, like VT, has an abundance of beautiful fir and many other kinds of trees.
NH, like CO, has interesting streams running alongside the road. Not good when the flow of those streams is in the opposite direction you are riding!
Each town has buildings like this one built in the early 1800's.
Towns, like Francesville and New Boston were founded in the 1770's. The quaintness of these towns is in quite a contrast to those we saw out West. This is one of the things that has made this cross-country tour so interesting; especially, when you view backwards to the way the towns were founded, that is, late to early.
Tonight is the banquet where some of the riders are going to perform a skit and everyone will likely share something individually he or she will take away from this incredible journey. The Support Staff will speak and overall it is a time to say goodbye as tomorrow after the final ride everyone will be heading back to their homes.
Tomorrow, we ride the LAST DAY and 60 miles to Portsmouth, NH and meet at a school. Then, a police escort will take us to the beach on the Atlantic Ocean to dip our front wheel to go along with dipping our rear wheel in the Pacific Ocean and some riders will meet their family and friends.
The emotions will be running very high after the 3,600-mile journey we 35 riders accomplished over the last 50 days that started in Astoria, OR on June 16th. Cheers to all of riders and Support Staff for a job well done!
A special congratulation to my wife, Anne, who I am very proud to say rode as the stoker on our Co-Motion tandem like a champion hanging in there through all the up, down and flat sections the roads through at us. I love her.
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