To Williamstown

August 3, 2021

We’re getting behind here, partly because the internet has been so crappy for the last two nights, and partly because a lot of our attention is going to stewing over issues with our fast approaching flight to Amsterdam. So, we’ll be brief. Easy to do, because yesterday is a bit of a blur for some reason - maybe because it’s almost time for dinner, today’s ride was pretty challenging, and I’m tired and starved.

Not much specific comes to mind when I think back other than what we can see in the few photos below. So I ask Rocky what she remembers. Not much either - look at the video, she helpfully suggests.

So, a few things. The scenery was beautiful again. We’re really in more rugged country ever since leaving Middlebury, and our days have been significantly hillier and more challenging than in any other region we biked on this tour. I think our Garmins registered seven climbs yesterday, none severe but in the aggregate they had their effect. We can really tell that we’ve been getting by on a steady diet of gentle terrain for the last two months.

The ride was a mix, like the previous two days. Part of it was on quiet side roads (and I think all of today’s photos came from these miles), but more than we would have liked was on highways again. As the terrain has gotten more challenging, the roads have become steadily less welcoming.

The highlight of the day may have come at the end, when we were delighted to find an authentic Greek restaurant right next door to our budget motel. Over delicious Mediterranean preparations of baked scrod we looked at the blown up photographs of Santorini and Mykonos on the wall and fantasized about a fourth tour of Greece someday. We’d better hurry - Greece is a tough ride, and Team Anderson is getting noticeably less tough with each passing year.

The short story of the day: the weather was great, we’re in a new state, rah, rah, rah!