milage 141
total milage 5043
camping fee $20
No pics until I get to a place that I can upload to.
Though I didn't know it until the next morning this would be the last day (at least for awhile) with Martin. No, there was no big fight. I just found that my money was disappearing at a faster rate than the miles were accumulating. So I will be riding faster, longer etc, though we may meet up again in Montana.
This was a great day except for the weather. It was raining when we left in the morning but since we had stayed in a motel that was no problem. We went accross the street, did our laundry and got breakfast. Then on to the road to Concord, which was about 35 miles away. We saw and walked the Old Bridge battle area. Then followed the road towards Lexington. We stopped and got pictures at the spot that Paul Revere was captured at then on to Lexington Green.
What a feeling to be at the spot where "the shot heard round the world was fired" and where the first American died for his country. Finally at about 2:30 we started moving North again on Hwy 1. We went thru New Hampshire on the coast and had to stop for a bout 30 minutes at a draw bridge, it was well worth it. Then stopped at a doughnut shop and met a couple using a Ural motorcycle/sidecar combo. He was an old time "Isle of Man" racer..neat!
Then we coasted on into Maine and decided on an early stop after about 80-90 miles in Wells, Maine. We stayed at the Ocean View Camp ground, nice. Then asked for a local spot to get lobster. They sent us about 200 yards down the road. It was very good, 1 1/2 lbs of lobster each, pie and ice cream came to about $85 and well worth it. Turns out that Pres Bush Sr goes there for lobster. After some of the locals asked how we found out about it they told us that he usually shows up in his boat but sometimes with a secret service convoy.
Then back for a good nights sleep in our tents.
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