Wednesday, August 26, 2015
We had a nice, sunny afternoon yesterday after the rains that we had in the morning, but it was too wet to do anything.  We invited our neighbors over as they just started their life on the road as 'full-timers'.  I guess they wanted to pick our brain.  They are from CT, and we seemed to click it off right away.  This morning, we struck off for Brattleboro, VT, crossed the Connecticut River into New Hampshire and found the rails to trails bike and hiking path over there.  We unloaded our bikes and started out on a somewhat gnarly trail.  The weeds were very overgrown and we wondered if this was a good idea, but we did it anyway.  We also loaded a lot of geo-caches on this trail and there is nothing better than biking and caching.  We were out there all alone, and the trail followed the river all the way down.  The trail got better after we had finished the upper part to the old railroad bridge, so we were much happier about it. We looked for 26 caches and found 26, so we had a good average for today.  It was getting late and we had only done half of the trail, but we knew we couldn't do it all today, so we headed back to the truck.  We got some good, fresh air and exercise. I can't seem to upload any pictures tonight, due to the lack of good internet service, so I'll do that some other time.

This shows the gnarly bike (rails to trails) path that we did in New Hampshire.  This wasn't even the worst of it!  We were happy to see the majority of it was fairly well maintained, but it is the worst bike path we have been on.  We were alone, and along the river, so it was nice, in that respect.

We biked up to the old railroad bridge and isn't it a beauty?  A geo-cache was hidden on the track, but not on the bridge.  These are the fun ones to find.

We biked the rails to trails path along the Connecticut River, which runs the whole length between New Hampshire and Vermont.  These sort of things are more pleasing to us than any busy city!