May 15, 2021
Day 10: Fairlee, VT to Rochester, VT
Springtime Perfume
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NOTE; it's late, we are whooped pretty good from a challenging day and we have an equally challenging day tomorrow, so I don't have time to write much. You can thank me later.
Climbing Today: 3653 ft Cumulative Climbing: 24,635 ft
In the morning it was another good ride alongside clear mountain streams on roads with little traffic. Doc said the air was perfumed with the spring flowers, and I thought yeah there goes my allergies.
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The route this morning was simply astounding - an incredible ride with hardly no traffic and the beauty of the mountains and streams and fields of wildflowers.
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The title for today is a little misleading; we didn't "officially" reach Vermont until today. We stayed in Fairlee, VT last night only because there was no place to stay in Orford, NH (across the river from Fairlee). The ACA route officially entered Vermont when we crossed over the Connecticut River at East Thetford, which occurred this morning.
The ACA routes stick to paved roads for epic journeys like ours, but there was a 1-mile dirt section today necessary to allow us to travel along scenic roads. This dirt section was so smooth it was almost embarrassing to call it a "dirt" road - it was better than many paved roads I have been on.
Today was a struggle. It got surprisingly hot and we shed a lot of clothes. The climbs and the distance today had me wanting to lay down and take a nap in the grass, but that would have been a bad idea. We traveled from 8:00am to 6:00pm today (some of this time was lunch and rest breaks), and we were beat when we arrived in Rochester.
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The scenery was spectacular, as it has been for several days now throughout NH.
I really have to go now - it's after 10 and I haven't showered or got things ready for an early morn tomorrow. Today's amateur video follows for your amusement. Good night all...
Today's ride: 57 miles (92 km)
Total: 419 miles (674 km)
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