2013 The Eastside Story - Day 2

Day two and I decided not to rush; after all, I'm on holiday! So I slept in and I dawdled and took my time. I repacked my bike more efficiently. I walked back to the Route 4 Diner and bought some coffee and I seemed to work up a sweat doing very little. I did everything but remember to check the weather so this morning found me putting my helmet on just as the first drops of rain began to fall, but that's not the end of the story. Because the sky looked nasty and the rain was already falling, I decided to abandon the sight-seeing tour I had planned and make a bee line down the interstate to tonight's stop. The rain was intermittent for a bit but never heavy enough to actually dampen the parched pavement then it stopped and the sky was clear, but I was almost here and sweating buckets. I arrived in Tewksbury for night two, glad to have booked an air-conditioned Motel 6 room.  No pictures - having battled the Boston area traffic and construction most of the trip; happy to be inside as I now see the temp at 4 pm has dropped to 91 F with severe thunder storms moving in overnight. Hopefully tomorrow (though it’s not looking promising according to the weather network) I will travel over to the coast.