Fall 2015 Climate Ride in Maine Day #1 To Boston

So far now I have made and blogged 3 rides. Sometimes I have been alone, and on others I had a partner (my daughter Hannah and hobo style with Nick). Then there was the ride across the USA in 2012, military style with 50 hard core spoke-heads. 

All the rides have been great. All different with the pros and cons of having the comradeship of others but giving up the freedom and automomity of being alone. 

For this next ride I have chosen what many people have told me is the best of all worlds, a fund raiser ride with a group of like minded people. The ride is not for hard core cyclests but for people cycling to save the environment. That is great but can they have fun and party.

We will see. 

To start the ride I had to fund raise $2,800. The group I chose are the Greenagers www.greenagers.org    They give young people who would otherwise have nothing to do for the summer, a job working out doors. They organize groups of youth to plant gardens, maintain trails, clear invasive plants, etc. 

The ride is from Bar Harbor, Maine to Boston and begins with a bus ride from Boston up to the start. 

DAY #1

It was a rainy day and I started late with my pancho on.

But after a morning climbing over and out of the Berkshires the sun came out. 

I made my way way through Northampton and onto the bike path. 

Taking an afternoon break along the way in Amhurst. 

But with work never far from my thoughts I spotted this customer wanting to buy another storage silo for an expanding busing

ESS. 

As the day wor on however I abandoned you idea to camp out and settled into a Comfort Inn in Sturbridge at 98 miles and better than half way.