Party in Papa's room!"...I don't think there's any point in panicking - yet." :glare: What's to 'panic' about?! June weather is beautiful. The forecast is fine. I'm most concerned about the lobster boil since we're eating outside. And besides - beemerdons has a big room. If it rains, we'll just eat in there
OK time for some early CFR planning.
Thought I might amble down to Rangeley Maine on Sunday and join FredW and the MEM parade next day if that's all right.
There! Planning all done /looks up Rangeley
You'll hit route 9 at Brewer -minutes from Bangor. If it's lunchtime, do NOT ride past the Eagles Nest Restaurant on the lefthand side going north. The Best Lobster Roll Ever:
For those planning on riding from Rangeley, ME to St Stephen, NB on Monday AM, we will be getting on the road bright and early, kickstands up at 7AM, and then stopping for some breakfast somewhere along the way.
Mapsource tells me that it's about 5 hours of saddle time to St Stephen (and it is usually pretty accurate), so with a quick breakfast and the border cross we should roll in there at around 1PM Eastern time (2 PM Atlantic)
The route is really nothing fancy, just east on Rte 16 as far as Lagrange, then Rte 6 to Topsfield, then Rte 1 south to the border cross at Calais. MEM said she would meet us just after the border somewhere.
Looks like this: Clicky
PS - Just made the mistake of checking the Fredericton 10 day weather forecast. Does it ever do anything but rain up there?
Be careful what you wish for, PapaParty in Papa's room!"...I don't think there's any point in panicking - yet." :glare: What's to 'panic' about?! June weather is beautiful. The forecast is fine. I'm most concerned about the lobster boil since we're eating outside. And besides - beemerdons has a big room. If it rains, we'll just eat in there
I have both routes mapped out and in my GPS. I will leave it up to the crowd for us to either leave Rangeley 1/2 hour earlier (6:30 AM) or else take the faster route up Rte 9. Either way that will put us at the Rte 1 border crossing right around 12:30 Eastern time.Hey Fred! I know 16's a very beautiful route and IIRC, little in the way of towns/reduced speed limits. Did you look at 2 to Newport, slab to Brewer and then up rte 9 aka "the airline" . Google Maps clocks that at 4 hours, 30 minutes
IF we stick to Plan A, it'd be 3pm before we'd be at Ossies. Having said that, it's YOUR adventure and I'm sure I can find things to do for an extra hour or so in the morning
+100 on that. Joann and I are planning on hitting the Eagle's Nest for dinner on our way back home, Saturday night aprez the Aprez CFR Cabot trail ride. We've booked ourselves into a motel room just up the street at the Colony Motel on Rte 9. Supposed to be a great little Mom and Pop place.
OK, thanks Jack. I've modified that part of the route and also made the quicker route per above. We can decide which way everyone wants to go on Sunday night. Might also depend on the weather. No point taking the scenic route if it's wet.
