Maine the Hard Way, Day 6

Started the day in Brattleboro, Vermont at the local Holiday Inn Express. The night manager last night was awesome and very accomodating. We booked a 2 queen suite with a pullout sofa and he took most of the other room furniture out to make room for the bikes and trailers. He also brought old sheets to put down and protect the carpet and also clean rags in case we wanted to clean our filthy bicycles( we did not!). I ate dinner last night at Wendys' with a single and the other 2 guys ate elsewhere. Up early at 5am and though the breakfast bar did not officially open until 630am, they left us in early at 6am so we could be on the road early. Most of todays'ride was of little real appeal, too much traffic, poor road surface and good bit of rain w/cool temps but it was still time on the bikes getting us closer to the Kancamangus Highway in New Hampshire. Richard is doing awesome with his sore knees! Lots of preventive maintenance such as HEET, ice, elevating it as able, spinning a low gear at high RPM's and every time you look or stop he's doing stretching exercises and is consequently doing very well! The Garminconnect link shows a map of our route and we ended up in Lebanon,New Hampshire Coming up Route 120 North from Claremont to Meriden was a rough bit of choppy road surface, but just like Day 1 we felt like we were riding directly into spring with all the plants in bloom, etc, etc. My Picassa web albums from today and Day 1 both should show good pictures of what it feels like to ride into Spring with all the plants in bloom! Rode the Road through a private,co-ed, boarding school late in the day near Meriden, NH in the seeming middle of nowhere and when I Googled it I discovered that tuition, room and board for this private Boarding school was nearly $45,000 per year! Ouch! Spending the night at The Fireside Inn and one of the guys in housekeeping seems convinced I'm Lance Armstrong and he even wanted his picture taken with me to tell his buddies he met Lance! Not likely that Lance would have taken 11 hours to ride 65 miles, even pulling a BOB trailer. We head for Lincoln,NH tomorrow and plan to ride the Kancamangus Thursday!I'll keep you posted!