Day 10, Adirondacks and Green Mountain Loop Bike Trip, 2019

Day 10, to Lebanon, NH, 48 miles

Last night was lovely and lonely. My own little stealth paradise. It was foggy this a.m. Left at 7;30 and cycled to Woodsville where—tada!—there was a covered bridge. Before starting this trip I thought I’d see covered bridges and cycle tourists. Well, we know how that’s gone, but this covered bridge was to beat the band, more than made up for being the only one by being LONG. In North Haverhill I bought 2 pastries.

Haverhill, the village, was amazing, like some old New England carriage village. It was like a movie set. The road and weather were perfect. Coming down from Haverhill to Orford I spotted a sign out front of the Mt. Cube Masonic Temple: Hot Breakfast. I pulled over immediately even though it was 10 minutes after it went off. The folks set me up with a plate of pancakes. I could taste the syrup on my lips going up hill.

After Orford I forgot to turn on my odometer, so lost track, but roughly 6 or 7 miles to Lyme, another GREAT village. In Hanover, Home of Dartmouth College, I found a bench and dialed up a Warmshowers host. The first one I contacted got right back. In fact, he’d passed me going on a pleasure ride opposite direction. I waited for Scott to circle back and we rode on to Lebanon.

So, tomorrow Killington Peak and then I reckon 2 more days back to Albany. New Hampshire is called the Granite State and everywhere are granite boulders, exposed granite rock cuts, etc.