A Change Of Direction

Today's mileage:  398
Loop mileage:  2507
Quest total:  17,904
State total:  47
Present location:  Hancock, NY

Coming up here, I always figured that as long as I was on a highway that said North or East I couldn't go to wrong.  I'm heading home now, so the directions have changed to west and south.  Of course I suppose I could have a lapse and get to far west, but I'm pretty sure I could figure it out before I got to the Pacific.  So I started out west and entered Vermont.  It was chilly this morning, and initially there was some fog in the higher elevations.  But the fog cleared, the temperature warmed up, and I had one of the best mornings I've had.  I was in the Green Mountains, on a good road on a spectacular fall day.  I'm not sure it gets any better.  Unfortunately, the picture doesn't do it justice.  I hated to leave the Green Mountains, but it was time to leave Vermont and enter New York.  After a bit, I jumped onto the interstate to get thru the Albany area.  South of Albany I exited west and went thru the Catskills.  Another great riding area.  As you can see from the picture, the water levels in the lakes up here are down too.  All in all, it was a great riding day.  A couple of comments on the pictures.  I realize a picture of a cemetery is a little strange, but I'm impressed with the cemeteries in the northeast.  I like the simplicity of the old headstones, and every cemetery I've seen has been mowed, trimmed and very neat.  As I came up on this cemetery, with the sun to my back, I thought the view was very striking, so I took a picture.  The other picture was in Killington where they are having some sort of scavenger hunt that includes hay sculptures.  I saw about five of them, but this was the one I liked best.  There was another town in New York that had Hobbit statues all over town painted differently, but I thought they were just plain creepy.  I should have taken a picture but I don't think it would have been that precious.