Maine Statistics

Statistics while cycle touring throughout Maine, USA, with photos, travelers information, daily logs of distance, elevation and costs, journal entries.


 
Following the Beam

There is a dog barking as I am very close to someone’s house inside a graveyard. Every time he comes out he barks and I can hear the owners talking about him hearing an animal. Let’s hope he doesn’t run off and come bust me tonight in the small village of Vassalboro, Maine. I’m having a bit of problems getting data fro my GPS to show where I’ve come from, and where I ended up, and hopefully in the next few days I can stop to troubleshoot it.  My Stat’s [read more]


 
Ruffling feathers on both sides of the Border

Stealth Camping, where one camps for free on public or private land simply involves a quiet place where no one is sure to find you in the middle of the night, blowing your cover, and potentially exposing you to safety risk, theft, police presence, or just a pissed off land owner. I’m failing miserably at this tonight, as I’ve realized I’ve been noticed 3 times by cars pulling into the Public Boat launch in Winn, Maine. It also helps if you setup at dusk, as opposed to 5pm. Fingers crossed [read more]