Boston to Jenness Beach

We had an excellent first day on the road and biked almost 68 miles in the humid and hot summer of New England. We left Jamaica Plain at 6:30 AM and did pretty well trying to get out 0f Boston until we reached Charlestown. The directions that Steve got from George, a friend from bike journal were a confusing at times.

After 16 miles of riding and no breakfast I began to get a little cranky, and was about to give in and go to Honey Dew donuts, a step up from "Dunkin' Donuts" when I spotted "The Blue Moon Cafe" in Greenwood, MA. It was the perfect place, since you had to go through the kitchen to get to the bathroom, deserving of the Bike to Breakfast website. After breakfast we got lost again and thankfully Steve listened to my complaining and got a map of Massachusets so we found our way after all but probably did a few extra miles.

After getting out of the city traffic we went through some pretty country with marshes on both sides of the road and some spectacular views of rivers and the Atlantic ocean.

We stopped for a snack at lunch in a cute old diner and an outstanding smoothie in a beach town in New Hampshire, called Secret Spot. By then we were sore (butt and feet), very hot and sweaty. The smoothie helped us get a little closer to Portsmouth in Jenness Beach.

We are now cooler, cleaned and had a great dinner at the Carriage House, seafood chowder, salmon and a great fruit crisp with ice cream. Tomorrow we are hoping to get to Portland but will be stopping along the way for breakfast in Portsmouth at the Friendy Toast cafe.