Made it to The Kancamagus Highway!

We made it to the Kanc! The Kancamagus Highway that is, which runs up and over the mountains from Lincoln,New Hampshire to Conway, New Hampshire. There will be an early start tomorrow with sore legs from today and no time to warm up! We're staying at the Comfort Inn directly at the base of the highway which runs >36.5 miles and ascends up and over the Kancamagus Pass. Most people pronounce it Kank-a-mang-us but the actual pronunciation according to Wikipedia is Kank-a-maw-gus. We rode today from Lebanon, NH through Enfield, Canaan, Wentworth past Mount Cardigan and past Mount Moosilauke. We had an incredible climb, long and hard up the shoulder of "The Moose" and pre-cooked our legs for tomorrow. Fortunately we were met by our support vehicle partwaay through the day. Sort of teasing you there as we have been unsupported essentially since leaving Milford on Day 2 and been pulling everything we need in our BOB trailers. However, since this is a one-way ride up to Maine, we were met today by our SAG crew about noon ouside of Cheever/Wentworth area. Richards' wife Brianna(pronounced Bry-anna) drove my Toyota FJ Cruiser up from Pennsylvania with the bike rack on the back for Michael and I to drive home. We were very happy to see the SAG crew as we think SAG stands for Support And Gear. Wepromptly each shed our BOB trailers,loaded them in the back of the FJ and felt like real strongmen pedalling up the remaining hills w/o the added weight. Bry-anna brought along their 8yp son Jason who thought the FJ was a pretty cool truck for SAG, especiaaly since it has 4 DVD screens installed that he was able to watch DVD's and cartoons on! He wanted to know if I bought it at "some hippy place?" Wonder why? Also along was Richard and Bryanna's sister-in-law Alanna with her mountain bike and she joined us for the last 35-40 miles today, which included some very intense climbing that went on literally for miles. At dinner tonite Alanna was trying to decide whether to join us for the 1st or 2nd part of the day tomorrow. The 1st part is about 35 miles up and over thr Kanc while the 2nd part is about 45 miles from Conway down to Richard and Bry-anna house in Lebanon, Maine. No doubt the first part will be way cooler, much more difficult but very cool. Catch you up tomorrow night!