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The original thread on on ODFU and there are 4 pics there too. Here's the text but I can't crosspost the pics.....
Here is the thread on ODFU
ok...so I went for a spin today up through the islands of VT. I left around 12:30 and I have to work at 4 so I am like...plenty of time. I jam through the islands - straight roads - until I come to my turn and there is a gas station. Don't need gas but it's 93 out and I need some water. I grab a water and a whoopie pie . looking at my tank bag I'm thinkin about taking a swing through CanadiaLand as there looks to be a little route there and I love the backcountry border crossings. I go back inside to see if the lady behind the counter has a map that I can write down a few routes from. I pulls one out from under the counter and blows the dust off of it (literally). I was like 'can i write down a few routs off it?'. She says ' take it'. Thanks Highgate Mobil station lady
So i gets to goin on my route and about 35 minutes or so later I get to the border crossing out in the middle of freakin nowhere. I love these things.. Basically a 1.5 lane road with a booth on it. The Frenchy Customs guy is outside on a white lawn chair with his feet up on a picnic bench - he never moves from this spot ...... I stop and turn off the bike...
me: hello.....enjoyin the weather?
Frenchy Customs Guy (FCG): oh yeah
...waiting...
FCG: Where you from?
me: vermont...colchester
FCG: where you goin?
me: just on a trip through route... to route....
FCG: you got anything with you?
me: just what you see
FCG: enjoy the ride
me: Thanks - enjoy the weather
I leave. No you cross one of these borders and you can all but instantly tell that you are in another country. The roads are cracked up with grass growing through, the signs are in frenchy (if there are any - this becomes important in like a minute and a half), kilometers is the speed and the land is poo-poo smelly and barren with only cows.....
All I can think to myself is that the road that I am on would RULE if:
1) there were less cracks
2) there was less dirt towards the sides
3) i knew the speed limit
4) [imporant one] there was more signage..
About 3-4 miles later and a bunch of turns with no signs I come to another turn that I didn't even know was there. You see, you come over this burm and you can see a road going straight. What you don't realize is that is a dirt road in really BAD shape and the road goes to the left. There is a house on the left side with a ton of brush, trees, bushes around it so I couldn't even see the turn.....Next thing I know - I'm on top of it... I get on the brakes (front and back) and start downshifting. I only get down a gear and my rear locks up.....oh FUCK...I gots nowhere to go...the back end starts to fishtail a bit - OH FUCK...I HAVE NOWHERE TO GO I stay on it and put some more weight on the pegs to try to stablize myself a bit.....I headed off the road and there is nothing that I can do to stop it. All I can see if the beginings of small cornstocks and manure ridden dirt and I can't stop:unsure:. I go through the brush there and end up in the field - upright
I get back onto the dirt road and stop......look at the cows lookin at me and flip the fuckin frenchy cows off and grab the camera....I got really REALLY lucky on this one. The pics are below......
I get moving and eventally..a long ways away...i come to a stop sign. I think that this is the road that I want but there is...guess what....NO FUCKIN SIGNS....
I figure that it is headed the way that I need to go and if it isn't the route that I need it should connect to the one that I am lookin for.... Turns out that it brought me to the right place but it wasn't the road that I wanted. I stop cause I need gas...Shell station
The guy (full serve) comes up and says regular (with the emphasis ont the u) and I say sure. I fill her up and hand him my card. he leaves and a REALLY HOT chick comes back.. I sign the shit and hand it to her and in the HOTTEST french I've ever hear, he says 'merci boku" ->instawoody.......she winks, flips her hair and walks away....I sat there watching her leave like holy fuck that was hot.....
Anyway - I made it home before work- barely and did so only because I ripped through the backcountry of VT going 85. It was a fun ride minus the near dump....
So here the pics....
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You may not find many roads signs in the country setting. But at least, if you go in the cities, you'll find every damn streets being labeled. Here in US, that's one thing that pisses me off, most streets are not labeled with the name of the street! Try also to find a door number when people don't put door numbers on their homes....argnn...lol
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