9 July

It was an early start today, 0615, and it was a very cold 40 degrees. Just got up, showered, packed and left Antigonish Nova Scotia…no breakfast. It seemed to get colder and colder but my new gortex rain gear works as a great wind breaker too. One of my gas stops was a small town outside of Fredericton New Brunswick which just so happened to be the same one I stopped at when I left Fredericton back on 30 June. The bonus here was this station had two pumps on the middle of a rocky/dirt lot but also has a small general store that had a little grill inside. They whipped me up some fried eggs, bacon and English muffins that were just like home cooked. Yum! With a full tank and a full belly, and for some reason the temperature went up a good 15 degrees, it was a pleasure to get back on the road. Coming up to the boarder I was hoping it would be a quick entry, even used my Mil ID to hopefully quicken the process. So I hand it to him and he goes “I got one of these.” So I played the what service were you in game and my last guess was Navy, bingo, and when I said AF he rolls his eyes; what a sausage head. So he takes my ID hold it up, looks at it and then at me, back and forth about 20 times, then asks for my license and does the same, then I had to take my glasses off (even tho all my pics have them on). I almost asked him if he wanted me to get my camera out, there’s another pic of me there. Then there were the 20,000 stupid questions. What a jerk. It didn’t take long to realize I was back in the USA, people wondering in and out of their lanes, everyone in the left lane and on cell phones etc…welcome back to the USA. Headed on down to Bangor ME and called it a day. Tomorrow it is on to Clinton MA to end the riding time and begin the drive home.