Peter finally did show up with us yesterday (Wednesday, Day 82), arriving just after I posted our blog. While getting to know him, we treated him to a dinner of cheese, crackers, some sliced pork steak, veggies, good bread and a small piece of carrot cake. This is his first bicycle tour, and we are impressed that he chose a cross country trek for his first outing.
We expected to see him again at our next campsite, but we changed our plans after seeing the condition of Hwy 125 (due to road construction), opting to take a different route to avoid the mess. We texted him our new location, but I must've used the wrong phone number, as we never heard from him.
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| This was probably a 12 point turn - not very elegant! |
Alea and I rendezvoused at Rochester, VT, where I was doing some grocery shopping. She needed a pit stop, but the grocery store had no public bathrooms. A half mile down the road was a roadside park with a porta potty, so I pulled over to wait for her (so I could watch her bike), thinking she would avail herself of the opportunity. She blew right by it, and I discovered there was not enough room to turn the van and camper around, thus the picture above - I had to unhitch and move the camper by hand in order to get back out.
The new route had a pretty good climb with some 9% grades. Lucky for Alea, the other side had some 12% grades - it could have been a much harder climb!
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| The Adirondacks are off in the distance as Alea sets off down the 12% grade. |
We ended up camping Thursday night (Day 83) at Branbury State Park ($22 for a primitive site, $1 for the Lana and minimum 50 cent showers). We had an awesome site up on a bluff amid the boulders. I had briefly met Mike and Gloria before taking our detour (we had also met them briefly the day before). They had said they were heading to the same campground, so around 5pm I went looking for them. I ran into Mike just down the hill and invited them to dinner, but they declined, having already picked up their meal supplies a short time earlier. But they did come over and visit, and we had a long talk about the van, the camper and our method of travel.
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