11-26 June 2005
What would
we do to top our 2004 ride down the Pacific Coast? Well, nothing
really. This year we decided to stay closer to home and ride one of the
segments of the Atlantic Coast that we haven't ridden yet. Having
already covered New
Hampshire to Maryland and DC
to Nags Head, the obvious choice for '05 was New England. The plan
is to fly to Albany, NY and ride to the easternmost point in the
contiguous states at West Quoddy Head, near Lubec, Maine. On the way we
will pass through parts of all six New England states.
There will
be no camping on this trip--it will be fully credit card-based--and the
route and timetable are carved in stone. So the good news is that we
won't have to carry any camping gear. The bad news is that we'll have
to ride every day no matter how lousy the weather. The other good news
is we won't have to make any gut-wrenching decisions about whether to
ride. The other bad news is we won't get to make any decisions about
whether to ride.
A final
handicap will be a distinct lack of training. I have ridden less than
600 miles all spring. JT has ridden less than 200 miles since last
August.