PEI is a good idea. I’ll get to that in a minute. I could tell you all about how hot, windy and loooooong my ride was today, but that’d be no way to sign off. I could also share a picture of the worlds largest gypsum mine which I passed today, but I didn’t take…
Day 10 (and in between) – Montague to Caribou Monroe’s Provincial Park
And here I am back in my tent, now in Nova Scotia at Caribou Monroe’s provincial park. We had a great few days in PEI with Julian and Marie. Incredible beaches, good food and lots of laughs. I really like PEI and we had excellent hosts. Today’s ride was fairly short. 45 km to the…
Day 9 – PEI NP to Airport
(I didn’t write a post for this one)
Day 8 – Cabot Beach to Stanhope Campground, PEI Nation Park
:). Not done yet. After a few days in Montague with Karen, Marie, Julian and Seamus I ride to Halifax to get a plane home on Sunday. It’s only 2 nights, but still… Yes the fish and chips are very good. And not just because I cycle for hours to get them. Today was the…
Day 7 – Linkletter to Cabot Beach Provincial Park
This island life is a different speed. I left camp at 11 and rode a whopping 41 km today. From camp it was an hour and a half on the trail to Kensington. There I had more fish and chips from a trail side place called go fish. The food comes in PEI potato sacks….
Day 6 – Parlee to Linkletter Provincial Park
Rewinding slightly to yesterday. On the bus ride it started pouring. I mean like crazy. Long story short me and my bike took a cab to the campground from the bus terminal. All in all I got very lucky with the weather. There was supposed to be four days of straight rain. Three hours last…
Day 5 – Mactacquac to Parlee Beach Provincial Park
Some days feel like many days and today is one such. After a 10 km climb out of the park I was greeted with a real live bike trail. The north shore trail I believe. 25 gorgeous kms of hard packed surface between bright green trees along the river. New Brunswick momentarily redeemed itself to…
Day 4 – WoodStock to Mactaquac
I will admit that I have tim hortons for breakfast most days. I have a soft spot (my middle) for breakfast sandwiches, and now that timmies has beyond sausage it is doubly hard to refuse. In the line up this morning a woman pushing 80 said to me ‘I used to do that’. She meant…
Day 3 – Norte Dame du Lac to Woodstock
Internet was spotty last night so I didn’t send an email. Yesterday started really nice. I swam in the lake which was COLD. Keep in mind a week previous I had been in Phoenix swimming in 90 degree water. Then the first 30 km of riding was along the lake. Abruptly in Edmunston the trail…
Day 2 – St. Germain to Norte Dame du Lac
I’ll probably be biking for 12 days and spending three or four with Karen at Marie and Julian’s place in Montague PEI. Today I decided to channel my inner Frankie and relax a little. He was world class in this regard. I am in Norte dame du lac at a lakeside municipal campground, a solid…
Day 1 – Beaumont to Saint Germain
Tomorrow our 20 pound chunk of grumpy feline love Frank is going to be down. His kidneys have failed. It is very sad. No more frank bombs for me (he would sometimes climb on my chest in the night for attention). 🙁 Yesterday I spent 12 hours on a train to Sainte Foy to start…