A week biking and (mostly) camping in Maine on the first-ever BikeMaine. Good scenery, small towns, and new people (Team Under Average, you know who you are). Some cell phone photos from my stops-a-lot ride:
Color-coordinated bike and rooster:
Shades of RAGBRAI!
“For Sale By Owner”:
Seriously good black bean soup and lunch spread at a church in Blue Hill:
Collapse:
Lobster dinner for 300 riders under a tent on the ocean:
Wandered back streets near a rest stop just in time to see someone (lower left) driving a boat around in a self-contained motorized sling
Rule #1:
Short on tent stakes:
Raining while the sun shines?!
Final-day sunset. Fitting:
Great week. Some rain, some hilly days (about 420 miles and 22,000’ of elevation gain over the week, including some “unintended detours”), some hijinks, and so many homemade-by-locals desserts at every stop…