Day 3

Day 3

We left the community of Tupper Lake, NY about 7:15 this morning. Our hostess at Tupper Lake told us that July had a total of 7 days without rain. So far this August it has rained every day. Today began very cool and very overcast, but at least not raining. Later in the day, we ran into a few patches of rain, but nothing that stayed with us.

Along the way we stopped at Lake Placid’s Ice Arena and watched a girls hockey clinic for a while. Afterwards we visited the ski jump “venue” and rode the lift to the top of the 120 meter jump (trip up the tower was by elevator). It was very interesting to get that perspective of what the athletes see before their run.

We moved on to Lake Champlain and boarded the ferry Valcour for the trip to Burlington, Vt. Beautiful ride across (‘though we didn’t see any sign of Champ). The ride out of town was a bit of a trial… the fire engines were out cleaning up a spill near the downtown area… we were told it was; how shall we say it?... fecal matter? It certainly smelled that way.

Other than that (with the exception of a short detour due to a bad choice by the GPS “programmer”), the roads were winding and great for riding. They carried us through some beautiful mountains and countryside of NY and VT. All along the way we passed numerous rock strewn bodies of water and enticing free stone rivers that begged to be fly fished. Some of the rivers in VT were high and discolored due to the heavy rains.

We concluded the day in St. Johnsbury, VT…. Not too far from the NH boarder.

Tomorrow we expect to traverse NH and maybe make it to the coast by the end of the day. Today’s ride was short (184 miles), but remember a good chunk of road time was saved by the trip across the Lake and some more time used checking out Lake Placid.