It is a sunny day as we launch down the gravel driveway. Theresa almost gets run off the road by my nephews neighbor in her SUV. I exchange the complementary bikers greeting of move over A-hole and we are off. Its 7:30 an we already have an rush on . We push it up the first big dirt hill and off we go. I pass what appears to be a cat on RT104 but its a baby fox!
Mushrooms in Fairfax
Cows of course
A turtle that was in the road - I put him back into the field.
A house and garage covered in cast iron fry pans - ???
Rt 78 in Vt We almost get run over by trucks every 30 seconds or so. Flooding is everywhere
Yum green flooded roadsides!
Fly hatch in Alburg
We cross at Alburg and pull up to customs. There is no one around so we wait at the window for a while. Someone shows up and we are let into Canada. We could have just rode our bike across and no one would have noticed. The roads instantly turn to crap.
We bike up to Noyan the next "town" on the map. Yes three houses is a town I guess. But we meet with a Bike Vermont tour group and they tell us about the only restaurant around so we bike south to get there. We go in and find the menu of course in french. I order the special that appears to me to be a Caesar salad but it turns our to be BBQ ribs with salad.
Its 85 degrees out and a plate full of ribs is not exactly bike food, But its tasty and we devour it. We have a great chat with the bike group and off we go north.
We see lots of farms - a field with dead fish from the flooding hat is across the road from the river what a smell!. Porta potty's are everywhere as everyone septic systems are flooded out. House are just trashed in some places. Its hot - flat and farms.
We stop at a store to get drinks and they don't speak English or take American money. We haven't changed and money to Canadian yet. We finally hit St Jean after 72 miles and a million detours due to flooding. We check in and head down the street for some great pizza and the BEST beer in the world!
Day one is over .
