And so it begins

I am sitting in a church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire right now and I have been here since Monday morning.  Portsmouth is a very cool quaint little town that has a number of restaurants and shops in the downtown area.  Tuesday I spent the day putting my bike together and then taking a ride around Portsmouth and Kittany, Maine which is right across the river.

Yesterday orientation began and there are 29 new people from around the country that are as crazy as I am.  Wednesday we spent the day "ice-breaking" and then spent the evening cooking out - unfortunately, I got food poisoning the night before and wasn't really feeling it.  Today we took our first ride as a group so as to work out the kinks and get everyone comfortable with riding.  This evening we had dinner at another church in town and heard a presentation from the local Habitat for Humanity chapter.  Tomorrow is our first build day which is in Farmington, NH about 45 minutes from here.

Saturday begins the ride - we are riding 65 miles to Concord, NH.  I'm ready to hit the road I'm getting pretty antsy.  

I'll post sometime in the next several days when there is new news from the road: perhaps a bear or a moose.

IK