Friday, September 19, 2014

IBTS14 9/18 Wilmington to Ludlow

Bummer. I wrote much of yesterday’s blog but lost it.

In the previous blog I “commented” on the small room and bed we had.  Well, yesterday we hit the jackpot: a very large room with king bed. Plus fireplace and double Jacuzzi.  After four days on the bicycle, my butt was ready for the Jacuzzi.  (Tonight we have a bidet in the room but I can’t figure out how to get warm water in it.) 

There were only a couple of restaurants in Wilmington but everyone seemed to recommend The Anchor.  And a good recommendation it was.  Very fresh seafood, perfectly cooked.  Everyone at our table was happy.

On yesterday’s difficult route we stopped at a farm store for lunch.  Like many stores in these small Vermont towns, they don’t have rest rooms – even for customers. Since I needed a rest room we stopped at a pie store down the road. Our intent was to just buy coffee but they had almond croissant look-alkies (the centers were macaroons) and so we each had one of these with the individually-brewed- cup-of-coffee. That went down really good and somewhat prepared us for the monster hill at mile 47. .

 

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TODAY’S ROUTE

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