Slept well until 1:30 am when the air conditioner started an incredible racket which ceased when I held my foot against it which was not the ideal sleeping position. I shut it off and opened windows. We were in our most upscale hotel, a Hamilton Inn, and they adjusted our bill a bit. A great breakfast at the hotel of fruit, egg thing that wanted to be an omelet, cereal, coffee, juice and I left with a hard boiled egg. We left Exeter in sunshine around 8 and made good time up and down the hills. Exeter is a lovely town and we rode by the Phillips Exeter Academy, school of Daniel Webster, Franklin Pierce, James Agee, a smatering of Rockefellers and du Ponts as well as Amos Alonzo Stagg and George Plimpton. Pretty place, check it out on Google street view. Lots of traffic along our route of people headed to work and kids off to school. The drivers continue to be very good, the vehicles that come the closest to us have been big yellow School Buses! 18 wheelers loaded with all kinds of stuff give us a lot more room.
We made good time and decided to continue on into Massachusetts. We stopped for lunch around 11 am at the Waterhouse Country Store, a chicken place in Windham. Kristen our waitress, cook etc treated us very special and the chicken was good. We were talking tonight and I think we never left a tip, good grief. Any way, we had 30 miles in by then and decided to push on to Ayer, Mass. We stopped and rested our feet at the Rose of Sharon Flower shop near Groton and asked about lodgings in Ayer. Called and made reservations at the notellmotel run by Mr. Patel. We rode into Groton and picked up the Nashua River Trail. About four miles of old railroad bed turned into a paved trail. Wonderful flat trail with lots of local bikers, hikers, moms with babies etc. enjoying the lovely day in early fall. We arrived at our motel in Ayer, around 35 miles or so from Boston, and walked up the street to Tiny's. Stacy, our waitress, said people come from Maine for Tiny's sea food. We had a good meal, very reasonable. Back to the motel where we can only get the free wi-fi in the lobby. A fellow guest, maybe the only other one, came in to report his sink was leaking badly. He rang the bell and no one came so he finally called the motel and Mrs. Patel's young teen daughter came out to talk to him. Mom and Dad are not here, come back later. Our fellow guest said the motel used to be quite notorious and some of the rooms are unusual. On the way back to our room, (two double beds) we looked in a couple of the other rooms. Round beds, jacuzzis, mirrored ceilings, tiger pattern bed spreads!
59 miles today.
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