Antaeas
Registered marching ant
A week late for the Salty Fog Rally, I rode their route on Cape Breton Island just before Labor Day. I went 4250 miles total in 13 riding days, not counting a round trip across Lake Michigan on the Lake Express. I rode through Michigan, Ontario, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and New Brunswick on my way to Nova Scotia, was on the Cabot Trail on Friday 9/3/10/ (pictured: north of Ch?®ticamp). On Saturday. Hurricane Earl crossed NS (see map). I holed up in a motel near Antigonish as 60+ mph winds drove torrential rain sideways and kept sane motorists off the road. Sunday was windy - I nearly was blown off the highway at the marshes near Amherst NS. I rode through NB, took two ferries to Deer and Campobello Islands, then on to Searsport, ME. The next day I hopped on I-95 to Bedford MA to visit my brother. Looking for an oil filter wrench, we looked up an MOA member in the Anonymous Book; it turned out he was a neighbor and former colleague of my brother's. I then rode north to Vermont, stopped at the famous Barn at Emerson Motor Works for an oil change by my longtime friend David, then I turned south to Woodstock, NY, where I spent the night. The next day I rode in rain and wind up to the Seaway Trail and on to Youngstown NY, where the folks at the Lake View Motel were very friendly. I coped with rain and headwinds across Ontario and Michigan, made the first ferry on Friday.
Recommendations: all of the Cabot Trail, Cape Breton Island, NS; most of the Fundy Trail, NB, especially Fundy National Park; VT Route 100; Mount Washington, NH; ME Route 182 to Ellsworth; NY 30 from Margaretville to Colchester; some of the Seaway Trail and the Lake Ontario Parkway in NY.
Recommendations: all of the Cabot Trail, Cape Breton Island, NS; most of the Fundy Trail, NB, especially Fundy National Park; VT Route 100; Mount Washington, NH; ME Route 182 to Ellsworth; NY 30 from Margaretville to Colchester; some of the Seaway Trail and the Lake Ontario Parkway in NY.
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