Finally in Shape

Aug 29th
Today we finally felt in shape...in the Adirondacks, we biked 100mi, averaging 15mph, eating nothing but doughnuts, and working off of a hang over from the previous night. We had a beautiful camp place down by the river, and were able to make a fire for the first time in a while.

Aug 30th
We made it into Vermont today, I had been looking forward to riding through this state for quite some time. We took a ferry across, and rode to a town called Middlebury where we stopped at the Otter Creek brewery and bought a growler of their IPA. It was delicous. After lunch we rode up to the Middlebury pass with inclines up to 18%, it was tough. Almost to the top we saw some adirondack chairs just sitting out in a big yard on Middlebury college's mountain campus. We decided to take a break and sit for a while. Just as we did a group of kids around our age started to enter a near by building, so we followed them, and ended up joining them for dinner. Afterwards they gave us a place to stay in a building that Robert Frost used to write in. Later we went swimming with them down in the river, and played capture the flag. It was a lot fun to hang out with so many cool kids our age!