The LazyAssGeek’s

The Vette nav didn’t know where the Comfort Suites in Dover is, so it was Garmin’s turn today. Quick shot across NY-32 and over the Rip Van Winkle Bridge to MA-9.  The bridge is being re-painted but there was still some of it that wasn’t under-cover and there were some nice views of the Hudson River.

MA-9 took us into Amherst, MA and by Umass. Sorry, no leg-humper pics, they make you stop for the crosswalks so I actually had to pay attention to my driving.  We stopped for gas at a price-gouging tourist trap, and some folks on their way to a tractor-pull stopped for some coffee. So I took this really crappy picture.

Andy & Biggi became the motorcyle-meat in a Corvette bread sandwich so of course I had to take a picture of that too.

We rode along with a couple of folks on a Harley for a while.  Memorable because not long after I took this picture an enormous hawk (Jim would have known what kind it was, cause he’s gay that way) dropped out of a tree at the side of the road and damn near hit them!  I left off the gas immediately because I was sure they were going to wind up under my wheels.  Biggi missed the whole thing because she was busy trying to wake up whatever body part had fallen asleep this time(ask somebody that knows German slang what “mushy” means).

 The rest of the trip into Dover was far less eventful, though Biggi did make us make one last sleepy-body-part stop 10 minutes short of the hotel. We took a ride over to the excuse for this road trip, the company Vygon bought up here.   We asked the hotel clerk for a dinner recommendation and he gave us a pretty good one, Cartelli’s Bar & Grill. Service wasn’t the best, but they made up for it by being very friendly(and by friendly I mean that she leaned over alot).

A short visit to Portsmouth tomorrow, and then more driving though the fun back roads back to Saugerties.