Tomorrow I will ride to Newton, MA and pick up the Bike the US for MS van which will take us to Bar Harbor, Maine.  Tomorrow is just a travel day, and tomorrow night I'll stay somewhere in Bar Harbor.  The next day is our "zero day"; the official start of the trip, even though we won't get on our bicycles yet.  Then we go!  First day, 68 miles!

Today we flew in to Boston, MA.  I'm going to say goodbye to Diana here as she starts her own journey.  We had a late coffee and early dinner with Emily, a good friend of mine that "friends of this blog" may recognize from 2014 when I traveled through Oregon and met her on her motorcycle.  I love reconnecting with old friends, and Emily is great.  But now she is on fire (literally, apparently).  Today was really rainy and grey and dreary, but that's OK because we weren't in the mood to do much of anything anyway!

Oh, and the "meeting of people" has already begun!  We met a great Italian restaurant owner at the place we had dinner, Ristorante Saraceno.  He was classic Boston Italian, and gave us at least 4 recipes during the course of the meal, along with advice with how thin to make our pizza dough (hint: not too thin that it burns).  I love travelling and meeting new folks.  Onward!