Day One, New York NY to Groton CT

After 4 days in Manhattan doing the things Tourists do in NYC we finally made a start to our mother of all road trips. We picked up the bikes in New Jersey, and headed north after wee isssssssue was resolved on one of the non BMW bikes shall we say.

Weather was great but some numb nuts road workers had been tasked to do some sweeping of a lane on the i95, way up by Bridgeport CT. Hard to believe but these numb nuts caused bumper to bumper congestion for about 40 kms south of that point. We were in about 3rd gear for nigh on 50 kms. Stopped for a bite and a break and hit the road again. Once we passed the road works, north of Bridgeport we were back up to the speed limit. The 222 km ride took over 5 hrs and our average speed was 43 kms per hour if you want the stats? tedious……….

I am suggesting we might log our 10 favourite rides on this road trip and maybe our 10 least favourite rides.

As at Day one, New York to Groton would top the list of the top 10 worst rides,………just saying.

Moving right along, once we checked in to our digs we headed down to the supermarket for some tucker. In the car park we met Captain Henry Collins the 3rd, who pulled in on an aging RS beemer and started yarning about what we were up to. All the rides he suggested we do in New Hampshire and Vermont were already on the agenda so that was a good start. When he found out we were heading for Boston, he gave us the Connecticut dwellers opinions on Bostonites. Best I don,t repeat those here until we are well out of Massachusetts if you get my drift. A top bloke who shared lots of his favourite rides with us, great to catch up with some locals in these towns. We also ran into a Newport RI rider down the line a bit, on a BMW 1200 I might add, who was on his way home from New Orleans. Only saw two Triumphs on the road yesterday and they were beside me.

Day two to kick off one day away from the 4th of July holiday as we head north to Boston. We are expecting another hideous day of holiday traffic so will have to tuff it out.