East Coast Greenway Ride

  Well, our trip has completed and our journey was now changing.  I had planned that the trip would end around this time and had envisioned renting a car for the drive back to Austin.  Randy, Beth, and Sandy will be heading back to Colorado over the next couple of weeks.  I couldn't convince them that they needed to swing by Austin to drop me off.   :>) After looking at car rental rates, it became clear that it was cheaper to fly so I reserved a flight out of Bangor, ME.  The Paul Bunyan campground was just outside of Bangor and provided a convenient dropoff point for me without impacting the rest of the group's travel plans too greatly. The campground was an inviting place to hang out and their welcoming committee was enthusiastic. Randy and Beth took advantage of the horseshoe pits and Sandy spent some time blogging.  I decided to ride into Bangor to see the sights.  On the way, one of the local church message boards posed a thoughtful q...

  This next morning was warm and ride-worthy.   We first rode to a Lubec coffee house downtown for coffee and a Maple Smoked Bacon Cinnamon roll.  It was the breakfast of champions! Simple homes along the street looked inviting, along with the attractive yards. The Lubec water tower, at first glance, looked to be a convenient location for a cell tower.  However, given all the hardware, it is more likely a border patrol setup. While sipping coffee and munching on a great cinnamon roll, a local (at least for 6 months and 6 months in Colorado) began telling us of the great gold swindle in 1896.  A preacher and one of his congregation came up with a great plan to leach gold from seawater.  He hired around 100 local people to help with the leaching process.  Investors poured in from NY.  After 6 months, the local people got paid, and the preacher disappeared.  The investors lost everything.  Hmmm....  The book, however, looks like a...