[Bike] (Don't Go Back To) Rockport
Jun. 6th, 2005 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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narya for, on my bike, just shy of 55 miles (far enough that the 1% difference in what our bikes report is noticeable). You can get from civilization to Lynn, roughly by following 60 through Malden and then not turning where it heads for the rotary-o-doom at 1, but it's not really that much fun. Then it was an exercise in following numbered roads over streets not paved particularly well; 129 to Marblehead, a path back to Salem, then 1A across the Huge Gratuitous Bridge! to Beverly to 127 to Rockport.
Also, the sucktastic Massachusetts pavement was out in force. Just how craptactular was it, you ask? It was so suckalicious, thatnarya lost the bag on the back of her bike in a pothole somewhere between Manchester and Gloucester.
Rockport itself was nice (I always trip on the REM reference though). We stopped, and got ice cream. There was a Very Special commuter rail ride home. We explored the wonders of Leverett Circle on a bike (conveniently not a circle now, but why isn't there a good way to get between Boston and Cambridge by bike?) and got home and showered. (route)
narya for, on my bike, just shy of 55 miles (far enough that the 1% difference in what our bikes report is noticeable). You can get from civilization to Lynn, roughly by following 60 through Malden and then not turning where it heads for the rotary-o-doom at 1, but it's not really that much fun. Then it was an exercise in following numbered roads over streets not paved particularly well; 129 to Marblehead, a path back to Salem, then 1A across the Huge Gratuitous Bridge! to Beverly to 127 to Rockport.Also, the sucktastic Massachusetts pavement was out in force. Just how craptactular was it, you ask? It was so suckalicious, that
narya lost the bag on the back of her bike in a pothole somewhere between Manchester and Gloucester.Rockport itself was nice (I always trip on the REM reference though). We stopped, and got ice cream. There was a Very Special commuter rail ride home. We explored the wonders of Leverett Circle on a bike (conveniently not a circle now, but why isn't there a good way to get between Boston and Cambridge by bike?) and got home and showered. (route)
