Oh, here's part of the map of our route.....

Fall's definitely on the way out and Sandy will probably get rid of any remaining leaves over the next day or two, so it was nice to squeak in a ride before the strom.

So many great dirt roads west of Quabbin and Sunderland!



Can't really trust the street signs though. This road was perfectly fine.



The plan was to go from Hawley up into VT but the high country got really socked in by mist and drizzle, so I cut things short. This will give me an excuse to go back soon!



pmk

60 degrees today, thanks to sandy. Makes ya want to ride, but it was still raining off and on......lots of leafs on the road...............TD

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2012 V Strom 650 Fox orange "The little" bike
2010 Goldwing Titanium "The BIG Bike"
2004 Polaris Sprotsman 500 ATV[/color]

I kept looking wistfully down my street to see if the wet leaves were peeling up yet and blowing away...while I cleaned up downed branches, sawed downed limbs and determined what stock I'll need to put blown-down sections of our fence back up. Un-f'ing-fortunately, the only engine I got to listen to today was that of my chainsaw.

I'm praying that it isn't "too rainy" tomorrow.

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2013 Northeast V-Strom Rally!

2011 pearl white DL650A
58 y.o.
6'2", 270 pounds

We cancelled our planned trip to Long Island (via the New London ferry). Poor folk are still devastated by Sandy.

So we ended up spending a couple days riding the Cape. It's beautiful off-season and we had many of the back roads and beaches to ourselves.



The road through the National Seashore was still full of color.



The only other creatures on the beach were birds.



And some of the dirt roads ended up being pretty challenging (because of the sand).



pmk

this is making me homesick

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DL650A L1 "Sandy"
Solobox Paniers
17/46 520 size chain, Front and rear Sprockets
Rigid Industries 6" E-series light bar
3m Military Green Wrap on order
Oil Filter Adapter HERE'S why

Looks like it's going to be a nice weekend. I'm going to try and go over Mt Riga from CT into Mass on Saturday and fins some new dirt roads along the way.

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2013 Northeast V-Strom Rally!



'09 Wee Strom
'08 Triumph Tiger

Have fun and take some pics to share!

Have you ridden from Mt. Riga up into MA through the Mt. Washington area? There's a 10-mile dirt road from CT into MA through the park that is awesome. Very remote. I think it's called Mt. Washington Rd. in CT. I could've swown I heard banjo music!




pmk

Sorry I'm late, but I love this photo!

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