Sunday Ride

The last week in Maine has been very hot and humid with thunderstorms on and off all week.  I decided instead of taking the chance of getting caught in the thunderstorms to work on cleaning out more of the house, especially since I rode a lot last week.  A friend contacted me in the middle of the week to see if I was riding at all this weekend.  We decided to ride on Sunday since it was the best day of the weekend weather wise.  Saturday morning I had a dog attack and bite my right hand.  He got a good hold of my hand, but was very fortunate he didn’t hit any nerves.  I spent the day resting as I wanted to ride on Sunday.  When I got up Sunday morning, the first thing I did was go out to my bike sit on it and see if I would be able to ride.  My Palm wasn’t sore or hurt so I felt I would be alright.  Just before I left I put ointment on and wrapped my hand with gause.  I then put a rubber glove on cutting off the thumb and fingers except for my middle finger finger as I have a big cut down that finger.  I also took a bunch of Advil to help with any pain and swelling.

We met in Richmond and had breakfast at Annabella’s then headed towards the coast.  We did a bunch of the fingers going down to the coast.  First was Boothbay and around the Ocean Point loop.  The views around the loop are beautiful, with boats coming and going from the harbor.

From there we headed over to to South Bristol.  The bridge over to Christmas Cove went up to let some boats out of the harbor.  This looked like a pretty new bridge and was neat to watch it up close opening and closing.  Cute little coastal town.

From there we went over to Pemiqid Point.  We parked next door to the park at a little gift shop.  I had always gone over to the park and never wander over to the gift shop.  We checked out the shop and then indulged in a ice cream cone.  Was nice sitting in the shade with a little ocean breeze.  The temperatures were in the 80’s even on the coast.

We then hooked onto Route 32 and followed the waters edge up through to Round Pond, Jefferson, circled around a little on the back roads until we ended up in Newcastle.  I love my friends, they know that I’m always looking for fun things to put in my blogs.  I had totally forgotten about this place!  We pulled over and I looked up and read the sign, and laughed – yup got to have a picture of that!

The locals named the corner as there were dairy farms on all sides of the corner and every time you drove by there was always cow shit in the road.  As I was googling information about this I found a Facebook page, and they have also done weekly YouTube reality videos back in 2014.

We took Blinn Hill Road (the view on top of the hill were breath taking- you could see for miles) back to Route 27, we stopped to gas up and I decided this would be a great end of the day.  We were close to 200 mile at this point, my hand was starting to hurt a little.

There is so much more coastline to see!  Maine is so beautiful, hopefully I will hit more before I head out!

Another great day in the books!

Love and Light to you all!