It felt good leaving Bar Harbor riding through this exciting village. I had a lot of great fun here with the people and the places I visited. It also felt good to surpass 3000 miles as I left Mount Desert Island and turned eastward to Canada; so close I could taste it. Today was cool and cloudy and the wind was at my back to push me along 80 miles into Machias. The hills continued but I powered through them getting used to this new coastal landscape. This part of Maine called ‘Down East Maine’ was very rural and became increasingly desolate with forest and strange tundra like meadows which I think were blueberry fields. I started my ride today with an easy stroll through Machias where a raging waterfall crashed through the center of the
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