{"id":983,"date":"2023-05-20T13:19:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T18:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/?p=983"},"modified":"2023-06-19T13:17:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T18:17:02","slug":"burlington-vermont-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/2023\/05\/20\/burlington-vermont-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Burlington, Vermont roads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It rained last night and rain is expected tonight. Fortunately dry cycling today. The weather and difficulty finding motels online made for a shorter ride today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I saw a variety of road conditions yesterday afternoon and today. Coming into Barre\/Montpelier yesterday the roads were badly rutted and shoulders occasionally had big holes. That makes for careful riding in traffic when I move left to avoid obstacles. Fortunately, Vermont drivers seem well behaved (compared to say aggressive New York Long Island drivers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was one driver who tried to be obnoxious today but mostly came across as a mix of pathetic and comical. He honked, yelled something unintelligible as he passed and raised a one finger salute out the window driving away. However, I really couldn’t figure what that was all about so it seemed more pathetic than anything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leaving Montpelier I had newly paved very smooth roads. Coming through Richmond was an area in between – in the middle of construction with a few smooth areas and an ugly gravel section I mostly walked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is a railroad to the left, interstate highway to the right and river to the far left. In between is US 2 as the local route. All followed the valley to the west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Skeleton riding a motorcycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think the church steeple is higher than either width or depth dimensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Bolton store was closed, but still a good stop for a short break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last bit of pavement for a bit. The gravel started ok, but became loose enough it was easier to walk for a bit. After that grooved pavement. I was happy when I came through the construction zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Coming into Williston on US 2 was a medium sized hill. I noticed a gravel road to the right with one of these Cross Vermont bicycle route signs. Decided to follow it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Came to an even smaller road closed November 1st to May 1st.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It went through a forest path and up a steep hill (more climbing than the original one I’d avoided on US 2). However, it was a great little path to follow up and over the hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After this, I was on some of the back roads of Williston. My parents lived there between 1990 and 1998. I went and found the house and talked with current owners who were gracious and friendly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Took this photo of the subdivision sign. From 1993 to 1997 I lived in Massachusetts but never got the chance to cycle up to my parents place, so nice to come past now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Otherwise a somewhat early finish and easier day. Strava tells me<\/a>: 38.56 miles cycled in 4:20:27 for an average of 8.9 miles\/hour. 1470 feet climbed and 3165 calories burned.<\/p>\n\n\n

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It rained last night and rain is expected tonight. Fortunately dry cycling today. The weather and difficulty finding motels online made for a shorter ride today. I saw a variety of road conditions yesterday afternoon and today. Coming into Barre\/Montpelier …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vermont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvermeulen.org\/gone2look4america\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}