ButtliteX: Among the MS5000. An update

 

Update 1.  Where the Buttlite X should have been

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This week and part of next should have been where the Buttlite X was.  I knew it was an easy pad to get to the 5000 miles as it was 1000 out, 1000 back and 7000 in between.  But COVID, like a lot of other events, left us hanging.    I hate this year.  One of the funniest things I've seen posted recently was "Dear 2020: First off, I'm letting you know I'm typing this with my middle fingers."

So, with the leave approved from work and no rally, I decided to go visit my sister and her husband in Maine.  They bought a winery this past winter; talk about awesome timing.  I grabbed my Buttlite X rally flag and went riding.

Where Live From Daryl's House is taped.  Apparently has some good food too.

There's Daryl

Somewhere along VT-9, I picked up this beauty.  My little compressor did the job; took 20 minutes to fill the tire, but it worked.

I stopped in Lancaster, NH home of the Eastern Snowmobile Museum and Hall of Fame

When in southwest Maine, one must stop in Lynchville

and have a lobster roll at Young's in Belfast with Paul Pelland, MS5000 ride creator.

Lobsters

Belfast Harbor

Quick visit with my Aunt Karen at the Happytown Farm

With the destination of Catherine Hill Winery near Cherryfield.

The property has a small cemetery on it where several veterans are buried.

B, being herself, trying not to bark at me.

The view from under the oak trees.

Their Cabernet Franc plus a view of their show off vines

Dinner, a Maine boil with lobstahs from Chipman's

 The ride home was uneventful, cold start, but uneventful.  Total mileage so far: 

 

MS5000 begins

And we're off.....

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Starting Odometer 1 September:   67793

Finished third overall with 22,500+ points.  thank you for your support