{"id":512,"date":"2014-06-05T04:01:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T12:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/?p=512"},"modified":"2016-02-20T08:44:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T16:44:01","slug":"day-36-nashua-nh-206-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"Day 36 &#8211; Nashua, NH  (206 miles)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We started early this morning but still took all day to go just over 200 miles. We took our time and stopped in to see one of Robin&#8217;s friends at their home for lunch. Thank you Rachel and Jon for your hospitality and for taking time out of your busy day in the middle of the week.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/36-road1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-516\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/36-road1.jpg\" alt=\"36 road1\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/36-road1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/36-road1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/36-road1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>As you can see, the roads out here are beautiful.\u00a0 This is about all we saw today since everything is so green and grows right up to the side of the road.\u00a0 Getting around in this area without a GPS would be very difficult unless you were on the highways.\u00a0 There are little towns just about everywhere an the roads between them are not straight.\u00a0 In the final 70 miles today I don&#8217;t think I ever went more than 6 miles on the same road &amp; just about every turn was onto &#8220;Main&#8221; street through a small town center.\u00a0 We are fairly close to Boston here in Nashua and here is my theory.\u00a0 150+ years ago all these little towns were individual townships and separated by a few miles.\u00a0 Close enough to Boston to be convenient but far enough away that you were definitely out of the city.\u00a0 Now &#8211; people have moved in to just about every open space between the towns and it&#8217;s all one big suburb.\u00a0 Speed limits are seldom over 35 mph and the roads wouldn&#8217;t support anything faster anyway.\u00a0 So, while it&#8217;s picturesque and quaint, we&#8217;ll be looking for roads with a little higher speed limit tomorrow, not the slab &#8211; just something in the middle &amp; I&#8217;d like to be off the road before everyone is on their way home from work.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/36-road2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-515\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/36-road2.jpg\" alt=\"36 road2\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/36-road2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/36-road2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/36-road2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Before I wrap this up, I would like to commend the state of New Hampshire for having the hands down, absolute BEST, nobody else even comes close, state motto:<br \/>\nLive Free or Die &#8211; that just about sums it up doesn&#8217;t it.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/36-map-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-519\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/36-map-1.jpg\" alt=\"36 map-1\" width=\"600\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/36-map-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/36-map-1-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/whiskeypapa\/here\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/36-map-1-468x300.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started early this morning but still took all day to go just over 200 miles. We took our time and stopped in to see one of Robin&#8217;s friends at their home for lunch. Thank you Rachel and Jon for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/?p=512\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2014\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}