We biked this trail in New Hampshire ahead of the official ribbon-cutting

Seven miles of the New Hampshire Seabrook Trail are built.

Our bike ride. Apologies for the uneven line.

I’ve been following the progress of a trail in New Hampshire that will one day practically go border to border, from Massachusetts to Maine. And now 7 miles or so of are done and ready for the big ribbon-cutting in September.

Only we were headed to Maine in August. So why wait?

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P2P part 2: Boston to Portland, Maine on the East Coast Greenway

Three days, about 170 miles on the East Coast Greenway. Plus another 40 miles around Portland.

Live by the Garmin, die by the Garmin.

We certainly needed the help of our electronic gadget to find a few trails that are part of the East Coast Greenway on the second half of our P2P (Providence to Portland) adventure.

I’m especially thinking of one with an unmarked, overgrown entrance on curve of a neighborhood street and another spot where it helped navigate us from Somerville’s Assembly Point neighborhood to the start of the Bike Trail to the Sea in Everett (though we still struggled with the MBTA parking lot and roads surrounding it — how about signage for the benefit of area residents, never mind strangers like us, Everett?)

But we also opted to follow the Garmin’s directions over East Coast Greenway signs, and that led us to this “road” in North Berwick, Maine:

Oh, there’s more — the adventures of touring!

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