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
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