A beautiful ride on a beautiful day. Mostly on an ATV trail in Bowdoin and Sabbattus.
Exploring this year much further south than ever before, I kept pushing further and further until I knew that I was going to exhaust myself getting back. Finally arriving at a paved road, I rode a half mile down to the next intersection. Try as I might, there was no locating the intersection on my map, a page from DeLormes Atlas of Maine. Ordinarily an invaluable resource, it turned out to be practically useless today.
Not wanting to risk extending my ride even further with a wrong turn, I doubled back and re-traced my route northward through the woods, until I came to another paved road, which I was also unable to locate on the DeLormes. This time, I was reasonable sure, by the position of the sun, that the paved road was heading north, the direction I wanted to go and that it would be much faster than continuing to re-trace the ATV trail.
This turned out to be a rare good decision-an almost straight, level, mostly paved road leading back to my starting point at the Litchfield fair grounds.
When I got home, I signed onto Google maps, hoping to learn where I had been. Google had the road names right and I was able to identify where I had been. Had the road names been changed since the atlas was printed? Why would a town re-name roads?
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
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