The LazyAssGeek’s

It was long day on the road. Started with a run to York, ME to see Cape Neddick Light, which is known as Nubble Light. Absolutely gorgeous spot, I’d almost forgotten how much I liked the coast of Maine(ex-wife memories can do that to ya).

And of coure the requisite pic of the Vette.

After taking tons of pictures and taking in the sights it was time to do some miles. We decided to try the Vette’s nav today but that didn’t work so well. It was making us stick to US-1 and it was just too big a road, more like sitting in traffic than enjoying a drive. So Andy took the lead again with the Garmin and we started on some smaller New Hampshire routes, far too many to remember except the first of which was 107.

The most fun road to drive of the trip was NH-149. The stretch from Deering over to Hillsborough was great, tons of curves with lots of elevation change. There was a local in front of us driving a POS Grand Am, but he knew the roads so we were able to take them faster than we might have otherwise by following him. I had Iron Maiden’s “Run to the Hills” cranking on the stereo and was inspired to take some video.

We stopped in Hillsborough to catch our breath and a smoke break for Andy & Biggi. No mushy problems this time, just that it was Sunday, so Biggi had to call Mom.

The rest of the roads in NH weren’t particularly memorable, except to Biggi who hated the last bits of NH-9 and made us pull over cause it was too big & busy. After some map consulation and a stop for gas.. she had to suck it up cause in the SW corner of NH that’s all there is!

On to Vermont after that, first time I’d actually crossed that state’s border. Very pretty and great fun driving through the mountains. Though the roads didn’t have the fast sweepers that made NH-149 so much fun the definite “coolest road of the trip” was in Vermont. Appropriately enough it was Dover Rd. It was a very narrow mountain road with great curves, though you couldn’t take them at any kind of speed.  There was even this covered bridge:

Another mile or so down the road we came across exactly (genauso!) the kind of spot Biggi had been whining about not being able to find – a creek she could walk down to in the sun.  OK, it was a very nice spot and it did stop the whining and she of course looked damn good.

Coming down out of the mountain in Vermont was damn cold and though it warmed up when we got back into the sun an hour Biggi was in the Vette’s passenger seat and the top was up. We crossed over into NY at Hoosick onto NY-7 and it became something of an exercise in completion after that.  We went through an… interesting section of Albany after experiencing one of the typical upstate NY octopus-like cloverleafs and headed down US-9W before finally getting over to NY-32 and on into Saugerties.  The last hour was in the dark and Andy was very much ready to get off that bike, no matter what Mr. He-Man says!

We re-visited Johnny G’s Diner for dinner and it again was a good decision. Biggi was incapable of making decisions at that point, but she did seem to enjoy the stuffed cabbage.  A few beers to wind down back in the rooms ended a long, but great day.