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Day 15: Puppy Dog Trail

11/30/2014

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Have you ever seen the beginning of a homing pigeon race? The cage open, the birds step out, and thrust towards home. It seems that Blaster has this affinitivy to home once he is within a 500 mile radius. However, much like a child cannot rush Christmas morning, home will also wait.

We set off as the fog is lifting off the White Mountains:


Today, we road the last 180 miles of the PuppyDog Dual Sport Trail. The trail actually has a very dismal dog density. I think we only counted a Burmese Mountain Dog, a black lab, a weimaraner, and an Australian cattle dog. None were even puppy aged! Worse yet, we only get a good tire chase from the Aussie.

However, the track is was less than 1% of tarmac, just nice illdylic country roads. We road over RxR tracks, and under them:


Old car:


Most of the homes on at the start were being sold by Sotherbys. Not too shabby. If you were an architectural nut, you could spend days in the first 1/3. Many barn renovations and lovely homes,











With all these ritz homes and dirt roads, what a better place to have a carriage horse. This one just finished their dressage test:


It took us most of the ride to figure out why the trees had this reinforced tubing strung through them. Our ideas were whisky distillery, animal fencing, utilities....until we have a Eureka moment. It's a multiple tap maple syrup operation!




Apples trees in full season:


No lack of covered bridges either:




We just through our last $5CAD on the floor as we wheelied through




This bridge also comes with it's own dam:






This sign reads like a call to arms for an ADVer:

(and the GPS was correct, and the road does go thru!)

Tree lined roads. This route would be fab for Fall colors!


Pastoral overlooks


Bald Mountain Forest:


Blaster looking into the overhang:




There are only 330 miles remaining on this trip. I am out of Canadian cash, nearly out of US cash, nothing but dirty clothes. We have but two way points remaining--Centralia then home sweet home
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