{"id":1142,"date":"2010-07-27T22:47:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T02:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2010-08-03T22:01:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T02:01:25","slug":"escaping-to-vermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/escaping-to-vermont\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaping to Vermont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After working on exterior home repairs for a month and a half I&#8217;m ready to get out of the heat for a while so I&#8217;m going north to Vermont to attend the Northeast Jailbreak for the Chain Gang F650 GS group in West Dover. The get together is from August 5-8 at the Gray Ghost Inn. The inn is owned by a couple and the wife is an F650 rider &#8212; they are offering rooms at a great rate\u00a0 to the Chain Gang members. West Dover is on the edge of Green Mountain National Forest so there should be some great riding in the area. I&#8217;m looking forward to meeting some other F650 owners.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1145\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1145\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1145\" href=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/escaping-to-vermont\/vermont_routes\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1145\" title=\"vermont_routes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/vermont_routes-400x257.jpg\" alt=\"Vermont Routes\" width=\"400\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/vermont_routes-400x257.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/vermont_routes.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vermont Routes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since it&#8217;s only 170 miles to Quebec I plan to ride north on Hwy 100 from West Dover to do a little sight seeing in the Eastern Townships &#8212; I loved Lake Memphremagog last summer and want to ride around it this year. It&#8217;s a large lake with about 75% of it in Quebec and the other 25% in Vermont. Magog is on the north shore of Lake Mempremagog &#8212; a very cool little city with one of my favorite espresso bars\/restaurants Caffuccino. I don&#8217;t care what time of day I get to Magog &#8212; I&#8217;m stopping to eat.<\/p>\n<p>Then I&#8217;ll turn south to check out West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, and a little of South Carolina once I get out of New England. I was in these same states last year on the Blue Ridge Parkway, but that was so insulated (stunningly beautiful, but pretty well insulated from the rest of the world) I didn&#8217;t really get to see the surrounding area except for fuel stops. I plan to ride south more or less parallel to the Parkway. I have a variety of routes mapped and I&#8217;m not sure at this point which one I&#8217;ll be taking. The plan right now is to spend a couple days in the Asheville\/Brevard area and then head southwest toward Dallas and back to the heat.<\/p>\n<p>I hope I&#8217;m not being too optimistic, but I&#8217;m fairly confident I won&#8217;t be seeing any SNOW on this trip. One experience with that was more than enough&#8230; But I also hope there are no heat waves up north since I would really like to experience some cooler temperatures for a while.<\/p>\n<p>Mountains, lots of green, cooler temps. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After working on exterior home repairs for a month and a half I&#8217;m ready to get out of the heat for a while so I&#8217;m going north to Vermont to attend the Northeast Jailbreak for the Chain Gang F650 GS group in West Dover. 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