After a rainy week and just one short ride to town, a dry day came along and I rode my second metric century this summer. Mostly pavement but some gravel. It incl. a climb up Roxbury Gap - one of the 6 gap roads that run over the mountains. Starting back down I saw a skunk trotting up the road heading right for me. “Rabid?” I wondered. I stopped and at that point he noticed me and veered off into the woods.

Along the the highway I passed an aromatic field of cannabis. As of July 1 it’s now legal to grow a little of your own marijuana in Vermont, but not this much! I assume it was hemp.

I was pretty beat by the end. I’ve been harboring hopes of doing a 100 mile day this summer as I hit the big 7-0 but I have some serious doubts about that.