Tuesday brought us into the meat of this trip’s biking as we left behind the luxurious Minuteman campground for the hills of rural Massachusetts towns like Princeton. Life in the hills looks good if we are to take this middle school with a view as any indication.

Also noteworthy are these shiny buildings on a particular hilltop accompanied by both a “wildlife sanctuary” sign and a golf course.

We made a slow 30 miles uphill before lunch in Rutland, but were repaid with many downhill miles late in the day. Still, the final mile into Highview Vacation Campground drove home the theme of the day with the steepest slopes of the day ascending to the camp entrance. According to the owner, bicycle training groups used to stay at the campground and use that entrance road for training. There are only a few trees at our campsite and they are all next to each other so we have the most interesting formation of hammocks tonight.

Brotherly Love Hammock Formation