A Couple Of Geeks Do NERDS

[dcarver]

THIS is a great report!

Lots of pictures....seeing it through your eyes is a real treat. We don't have "old" buildings out here. Well, a few but they're made of adobe and are falling apart. Everything else is from the gold rush era, mid-1850s. It's cool to see the old houses, buildings and farm structures.

When you buy the old service station, you could use it to collect old tractors and cars....

Jist tryin' tun hep,

I so much more like the stripper club idea.. jes sayin'.. :lol:

 

[escapefjrtist]

Very nice report from the Geeks...another part of the country I need to visit!

Thanks for taking us along.

--G

 

[BikerGeek99]

Thanks, guys. For you left-coasters, be sure to check out Carver's stuff.

This was the little town I grew up in. Spent a good part of my life in. I love it. It is really cool to see other people traveling thru and seeing there prospective on it. But if you could see it now after the huricane went thru is is destroyed. I can't believe the pictures of Bennington and Wilmington I'm seeing on Facebook. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Oh, no... :huh:

Say it ain't so...

 

[jmarran]

Sorry to say, Wilmington VT has just about been taken off the map. Bennington has had devastating flooding as well. The list goes on and on and on..

 

[Bustanut joker]

Ya know yer gettin' as bad as Old Michael with these.Thankfully I was able to see a bunch of stuff just like it, though in my haste to get there a camera was neglected ..

I would check out Carvers stuff, but everytime I go to Candy Butt it crashes this confounded thing.. :blink:

 

[Willie]

Very very kewl RR. I live in MA and have traveled your roads many times. It is neat to see our area thru the eyes of another. You have done a great job.

Willie

 

[ionbeam]

...I would check out Carvers stuff, but everytime I go to Candy Butt it crashes this confounded thing..

And, the RR crashes my computer too. I enjoyed page 1 which runs somewhat ok, but page 2 (and anything beyond) doesn't fully load, sucks up all my computer's resources and it crashes.

 

[dcarver]

...I would check out Carvers stuff, but everytime I go to Candy Butt it crashes this confounded thing..

And, the RR crashes my computer too. I enjoyed page 1 which runs somewhat ok, but page 2 (and anything beyond) doesn't fully load, sucks up all my computer's resources and it crashes.

Well krikees then I best find out what's going on.. tx for the feedback guys..

 

[fjrob1300]

Great report Andyand Sooze..

Rob

Great report Andy and Sooze..

Rob

 

[madmike2]

...I would check out Carvers stuff, but everytime I go to Candy Butt it crashes this confounded thing..

And, the RR crashes my computer too. I enjoyed page 1 which runs somewhat ok, but page 2 (and anything beyond) doesn't fully load, sucks up all my computer's resources and it crashes.

Well krikees then I best find out what's going on.. tx for the feedback guys..

Yeah...it's doing something weird. I FINALLY got through it last evening....because of the same issues. I've had to turn everything off and restart a couple of times. For some reason I must have hit a window or something and could see the entire RR.

I figured you need to fly a geek to Creston so your' problems can be solved.

 

[BikerGeek99]

...I would check out Carvers stuff, but everytime I go to Candy Butt it crashes this confounded thing..

And, the RR crashes my computer too. I enjoyed page 1 which runs somewhat ok, but page 2 (and anything beyond) doesn't fully load, sucks up all my computer's resources and it crashes.

Well krikees then I best find out what's going on.. tx for the feedback guys..

Yeah...it's doing something weird. I FINALLY got through it last evening....because of the same issues. I've had to turn everything off and restart a couple of times. For some reason I must have hit a window or something and could see the entire RR.

I figured you need to fly a geek to Creston so your' problems can be solved.

I think Carver's issue is the number of pictures per post. Not many posts, but a metric crap-load of pictures per post.

 

[Bungie]

I think Carver's issue is the number of pictures per post. Not many posts, but a metric crap-load of pictures per post.

Well that and his pics are HUGE. Lots of memory/processing to display. I get the same thing on the forum when a ride report is picture heavy. Most browsers attempt to cache everything in memory - those pics are huge even compressed, decode them and they're ginormous. Next thing you know your browser is paging out memory and your system is effectively locked up.

Solution, shrink dem pics, or, not so many per page.

 

[Fred W]

Nice RR Andy (and Sooze). Glad you enjoyed your time in New England.

Next time you visit Maine, you should really try to get all the way up to Bar Harbor / Mount Dessert Island / and the Acadia National Park.

It's a pretty special place. Well worth the added miles. Best enjoyed in June or September when most of the tourists have gone back south.

Then you can move up to real boiled (steamed actually) lobstahs. Gotta be vareful though. They are a lifetime addiction.

 

[BikerGeek99]

Nice RR Andy (and Sooze). Glad you enjoyed your time in New England.

Thanks, Fred (not Ed)!

Next time you visit Maine, you should really try to get all the way up to Bar Harbor / Mount Dessert Island / and the Acadia National Park.

We actually went to Bar Harbor when we were up there 2 years ago! We rode to the top of Cadillac Mountain and the weather was absolutely, perfectly clear that day which is, from what I have heard, somewhat of a rarity! That RR is around here somewhere ... I think it's titled, "Mother Nature Owed Me One."

Maybe by the next time we venture to that area I'll be ready to eat lobstah like the big boys do.

 

[wheatonFJR]

GREAT REPORT! Love the photos and commentary.

I bet you guys loved those sunny skies compared to some of your previous expeditions...

 

[Old Michael]

A truly exceptional ride report, Andy.

I really enjoyed reading it and looking at the pictures.

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[vabrzn]

Enjoyed the pics and write up!

 

[BikerGeek99]

Monday, 8/15/2011.

One of the cool things about staying in a B&B? The second B – breakfast! We took a leisurely approach to the morning because we didn’t have a ton of miles to make. It was nice to just relax and bit and go downstairs to an excellent home-made breakfast which included blueberry coffee. The blueberry coffee was unique, but I preferred their house blend.

Sorry – no breakfast food porn. Neither of us took down a camera. Deal with it.

Before leaving town, we needed to swing by the Post Orifice to mail some stuff. Tricky, eh?

It had rained a bit overnight, and when I went out to take the cover off the bike it started to drizzle a little bit. Not much – just enough to piss you off, really.

We packed up all our crap, donned our gear, loaded up the bike, and headed out.

The back of the B&B, which we would DEFINITELY stay at again. Hopefully, we will!

Their little garden-y area out back.

The church we need to tell Ashley about for when she gets married here.

See ya, Camden. We hope to be back sometime in the not-too-distant-future.

We both thought this was a neat-looking spot.

Water-crossing, FJR style.

Speaking of water…

For those of you who made comments about the nice weather we had been experiencing? SHUT UP!!!

The rain wasn’t a deluge or anything, but it was steady. And non-stop. Ugh. Oh, well. When you tour on a motorcycle, sometimes you ride in the rain.

Remember the movie “Meatballs”?

And we rode right through Poland! Who’da thunk?!

Oh, wait. Different Poland, but they do have good water there.

 

[BikerGeek99]

Did I mention that every small town has at least one of?

A small-town race track.

I think is where the sprint cars (not Sprint Cup) race.

Norway? Paris?!? Where the hell did the GPS lead us NOW?!??! Are we following Bungie again or something??

In case you haven’t heard of it, there is a local attraction called the Maine Signpost. It has signs with mileages to a bunch of Maine towns with the same names as spots in Europe. We checked it out last time we were in the area, and since the weather wasn’t that great, we bypassed it this time around. If you want to know more, go do a Google search for it.

Anyway. Where were we?

Aaaaaand now the skies opened up for what would turn out to be for a while.

For safety’s sake, the rains meant I kept the pace down. I’ve heard guys say that there’s plenty of grip in the wet, but we have tar snakes in Ohio that are slicker’n … slicker’n …. Well, they’re slicker’n something really slick, especially in the heat of summer and in the wet.

Which was OK because, at times, I actually enjoy riding in the rain. There’s just something about being out in the elements that appeals to me. As long as my gear keeps me dry, of course. Otherwise it’d suck. But my gear kept me bone-dry once again so I just enjoyed the ride as best I could.

Crossing into New Hampshire.

Read it. Learn it. Live it.

 

[MEM]

I have to add my own "bravo!" to the list of kudos, Andy & Sooze.

AND....I love Camden. You have me thinking maybe I'll take a ride down there in October