Day 1

Well... the first day. And what a day it was. 70 miles, Festival Plaza in Auburn to Wells, ME. You can check out the first two sections of the day at the top of this page... the third isn't there because my phone was dying. Hopefully I'll get better at keeping it well charged.

The day started with a thunderstorm. Leaving Jason's house the skies were (very nearly) black as night. We made it down to Festival Plaza (about a mile from Jason's house) just as it started to pour. Luckily, Jason's barber was next door, so we waited out the storm inside. We got our start at about 10 am.

We realized pretty quickly our bags were failing. About 3 miles in one fell off my bike. Not completely, but enough to get nervous. We fixed it and kept riding, but it was soon happening on both sides, and happening to both of us. We did the rest of the day stopping every few miles to readjust and make sure everything was stable, which was a pain, but it got us to Wells. The project for the morning is fixing that problem.

Other than the bags, smooth sailing to Portland. We went right down Commercial Street, with the plan to take Rt. 1 most of the way to Wells. Rt. 1, we soon found out, is more or less a highway across Back Bay. Exciting. But We're alive.

At lunch, we stopped at Dimitri's in Scarborough. Chatted with the guy a while, and he took our picture to put on their facebook page. I couldn't find the page, but you're welcome to look.

We also ended up taking a bike path through a marsh, which was great a first. We ended us running into some construction of the path though, and got pretty slowed down.

Pretty straightforward day other than that... just really tired now. Ate a great dinner with Justin LeClair at a chinese restaurant. We got way too much food, but it'll get eaten eventually. That's all for tonight. I'm off to shower and watch the Bruins now. Keep an eye out for a link for a donations page (Make a Wish!) It'll be up soon.

Day 2: Littleton, Massachusetts.