They spent Sunday the 12th in an ATV park in Cannan, New Hampshire and then rode to Lebanon where they hooked up with Nora and stayed at a ATV park and had Chinese food at a local wokaria. They are in the most glorious part of New England at the peak of Autumn. Leah describes the autumn colors as "neon".
Today, Wednesday, they rode to Meredith, NH and cruised to the local campsite only to find that it was closed. What to do? Ride another forty miles late in the day? Once again the great bicycle god, El Cycib, (pronounced El-Ki-sib) was watching and sent as an emissary the angel, Paul who offered his back yard on the banks of the great Lake Winnipesaukee. It was four miles from the closed campsite, and when they arrived, Paul, and his wife Kathy had built a beautiful fire and brought out the holy sacrament of cold beer.
They sat around the fire and exchanged stories and Paul and Kathy described an epiphany they had while kayaking off the coast of New Foundland. They encountered a couple of whales who leaped out of the water in their presence, an amazing enough sight to behold. But wait! There's more! The great leviathans swam about a mile out to sea then one turned around and swam back to the kayak, lifted its great head out of the ocean and looked at them with its giant eye. Then leaped one more time and swam away. They said this was a prime experience and for days afterward they felt connected to the universe and all of its inhabitants.
When I talked to Leah, she and Nora were snug in their sleeping bags and it was in the low forties. Paul and Kathy's neighbors raise hybrid wolves and they can hear them howling and it sounds like curse of the vampire. It is a full moon after all. As the fire dies out, they slumber on the shores of Winnipesaukee, the guests of two very fine and interesting folks. Tomorrow they will cross into Maine, their ultimate goal being the shores of Portland, and then in 7 days they'll fly to Denver. Leah will join her mom, Rebecca, and they'll drive back to Tucson together.
Stevie Roman
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