Memorial Bridge CLOSED to Cars

This news isn't so fresh. This happened like a week ago. The Memorial Bridge is the span across the Piscataqua River that connects low income service workers living in Maine, to their Portsmouth jobs. It's an old "through truss lift" bridge, completed in 1923, painted institutional green, and rusting away to dust ever since. The Memorial Bridge was inspected last week and shut down to automobile traffic immediately.. It's that f'd up. Lucky for two wheelers and walkers, it is still passable by bike or on foot. There is something really free feeling about being on a bridge without cars.
Word is the bridge will open in 3 weeks. But so far I have seen no work having started on repairs. I'm sure it involves going to the DOT and allocating funds, declaring a call for bids, accepting a bid.. yadda dadda ding dong.

Across The Great Bay Again: Clockwise for 50+ Miles...

The problem with this time of year, is getting the warm layers right. Today I was sure I would be shaking in my booties. Within 15 miles, I peeled away 4 heat conserving items cause I was too freakin hot. I was wearing a Specialized Deflect Trail jacket I had bought earlier in the year. I don't know who it was designed for. But there is waay too much material in the upper arm. It becomes quite annoying when the arms get to a-flappin in the wind like a flag atop a ship's mast. The jacket also turns out to breathe about as well as any other "breathable" water resistant material I've come across. That is to say, about as breathable as a plastic bag. It was dripping inside. I tied it around my frame and kept going.
Checking out this loop south from Portsmouth, through Greenland, back up to Pease, across the cool abandoned bridge, Dover Pt. Road, tagged Dover, back through Eliot. I forgot to count the grave yards! I'm going to guess over 15. 4 hours and 50 plus miles. I have a hard time believing it was only 50 miles. Whatever.