Made it to Maine

We left our motel in Hyannis early and ate breakfast at an IHOP. After gassing up the bikes we were ready to tackle Boston traffic. Being the really intelligent people we are, we went by Boston on the outer most ring thus avoiding most of it. Even as far out as I-495 goes out and away from the city, traffic was still heavy and congested. We managed to stay together as a group and made the almost 120 mile by-pass without issue.

We exited I-495 near where I-95 meets it on the north but we took the route over to US-1A for a ride along the coast. Shortly we crossed into New Hampshire and had lunch at a very nice little place in Hampton Beach, NH.

Traffic in Hampton Beach traffic on 1A was crawling and stop and go. We went over to US-1. It was stop and go. We then went over and took US-95 up to Saco, Maine. The motels were a little on the 'run down' side of the scale. We made our way up to Old Orchard Beach and ended up with a place whose advertising was exaggerated. We are here and will hopefully get a good night's sleep in spite of the somewhat seedy look of the rooms. The price was right and we stopped early. That is about all of the positive I can say about the motel.

One neat part of this stop, though, is the trolley the community runs for a $1 a trip to town. We rode the trolley and walked around some in the town of Old Orchard Beach and had fun. We ate on the pier and enjoyed the view and then rode the trolley back.

It is now past bedtime for all of us and tomorrow we head out to the White Mountains of New Hampshire.