Miles: 77.2 Today / 2710.34 Total
Elevation Gain: 4711 ft. Today / 81,183 Total
A few days ago, I met up with 3 American Legion members outside a grocery store and made a donation to their fundraiser. They dug into their pockets and, between the 3 of them, donated $12 to mine. Big and small, donations all help find a cure and treatments for Multiple Sclerosis. Please donate if you can.
Today was one of those days where you know up front that it’s going to rain. The forecast was for 4:30 or 5:00 PM, so we knew we needed to hustle and knock out the 77 miles on our schedule.
After passing through Freeport, we hit Brunswick, and that’s when things started looking familiar, like this bridge, which was at the beginning of a really nice 3 mile long bike path along the Androscoggin River.
From Brunswick to Bar Harbor, the route is the same as what I rode on the Northern Tier in 2021. There were a lot of deja vu moments and cool things I didn’t take a photo of, because I already caught them back then, as we again rode through quaint little towns of Bath, Woolwich, Wiscasset, Damariscotts, Newcastle and Waldoboro on our way to the Thomaston Baptist Church, our digs for the night.
I sure as heck don’t remember all the hills I climbed today. And maybe that’s because we didn’t ride 77 miles a day on that tour. Shorter distances mean less hills climbed in a day.
Living Our Bucket List 
I am so thankful. You all need a break and sometime to take in the scenery.
JoBeth DeVore
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