New London to Raymond Maine/Little Sebago Lake

  Finally, finally, I am on the road.  Only a short trip of two hundred miles to Maine but given the Corona Virus this trip is significant.  8:33 the wheels starting rolling from New London, Connecticut headed for Canterbury, Betsy DiQuattro’s house.  50.64 kilometers in three hours, ten minutes and all went smoothly with cloudy skies keeping the sun off me.  Rather than suffer route 32 on the west side of the Thames River with its constant hills and narrow shoulders, I rode over the Gold Star bridge to Groton.  Following route 12 was easy, through Norwich off onto route 97 which brought me to route 169.  Narrow shoulders with plenty of hills brought me to Canterbury at 11:43.  The lungs and the legs felt good.  Tomorrow, Evan Sigfridson, Betsy’s thirty-five year old son, and I rendezvous in Brooklyn, 8.8 miles north of Canterbury.  Tomorrow will be a challenge as we head for Hopkinton, Massachusetts, over sixty miles.