August 30, 2023
Day 74 Bennington VT to Brattleboro VT
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We knew last night that it was going to be raining when we woke up. We thought maybe we would take a day off as we did not want to ride in the rain. When we woke up it was raining pretty hard so we stayed in bed. It did show that it would be stopping and it did. So at 9:15 am we headed out. We knew we had about 20 miles to get to Wilmington and there would be hills. We stopped at Stewart’s to get our daily muffins and off we went. We didn’t get far when we had to start the 8 mile climb. The more we went the more the percentage of the climb grew, up to 10%. We had to start pushing. Hubs’ knee has been really bothering him the past few days and it made it much harder for him to pedal. We had got a little more than 6 miles when this truck came down the hill on the opposite side of the road and stopped to ask me if we would want a ride up to the top. I said yes right away. He said he would turn around and went down a little bit and stopped to talk to Hubs. I thought, he better not say no seeing his knee was killing him but he didn’t. Another Biking Angel named Peter. He was actually going to Wilmington where we were going too so he said he would take us. We were thinking that seeing he is driving us that when we get out that maybe we could make it to Brattleboro. Peter actually brought us a couple of miles past Wilmington to the top of a hill. He said it would be all downhill to Brattleboro so we were happy. Where he let us off had a parking lot. There was a candy, fudge, ice cream place right there. Across the street was a brewery and just to the left was a distillery. The brewery and distillery were not open and the candy place didn’t have lunch as it was noon time. They opened later in the day. So off we went right down an 8% grade downhill. Weeeeeee!!! Oops, Peter must have forgot that there were a few hills and we did do some more pushing but nothing like it was before he picked us up. I would say 90% of the ride was downhill. There were a few more 8% grade downhills. We made it to Brattleboro around 1:30 and stopped at the bike shop and then headed to the brewery for lunch. We had a few more miles to go to get to the motel as it was a bit out of town. Tomorrow we head to Peterboro NH. State # 10 here we come. We will have hills and I hope they are not how I remember them as many years ago we lived in New Hampshire.
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Hubs said they will not be as bad as today but we will see. 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞.
Today's ride: 24 miles (39 km)
Total: 483 miles (777 km)
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You are admired for your fortitude….and for the just rewards at the day’s end!! Wishing you more smiling faces, kind new friends, a few laughs and a great day of riding on the last day of August, 2023!
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