Road Trip! Vermont
There’s at least one reason to love the Northeast. There are so many roads that are absolutely great for riding. Left at around 10 on Sunday morning (late, as usual because of me.)
Headed North through the northwest hills, the Berkshires (in MA), and the southernmost portion of the Green Mountains. The view from a motorcycle is quite different than from a car - you see EVERYTHING. I can tell you, those mountains are GREEN! Just an amazing wall of green.
Lunch in Bennington at a little diner. Good clam strips. Gassed up and headed west on Route 9.
VT 9 is a great ride. Twisty, generous hills, not a whole lot of traffic (but good passing zones for when you get a twit that insists on going too slow). Stopped at the lookout point. More bikes than cars there. It was a perfect day for riding, so there’s no surprise there. Onward to Brattleboro.
Brattleboro - hippies and construction. We walked around for a bit, decided to hit the road a little early. Route 5 South. Joe’s GPS kept insisting that we needed to take I-91. We saw signs for 5, and folllowed those. Never did touch 91. Lesson: don’t always trust the computer. In Mass, Route 5 and MA 10 run together for a while, then split off. MA 10 runs with 202 until you get to Connecticut, and then you run right into CT 10. Took 10 all the way back into Bristol.
Round trip, about 260 miles. Averaged 58 mpg.
Do that in your Prius.