After an awesome breakfast of chocolate chip pancakes (at Pancake Bay of all places), we headed for Agawa Bay, climbing the famous Montreal River Harbour hill along the way. This is the hill that Terry Fox wore a special t-shirt about the hill to inspire him to make it over the top. The views today... Continue Reading →
Day 51 – Sault Ste Marie to Pancake Bay
We headed away from Velorution this morning...a bit sad to leave the oasis but feeling recharged and restocked. We followed their suggested route out of the city, staying on Old Garden City Rd and then Landslide Rd. This kept us off the super busy "Great Northern Rd" through the center of town. Velorution is pictured... Continue Reading →
Day 50 – Rest day in Sault Ste Marie at Velorution
We said goodbye to our fellow touring cyclist friends this morning who were all departing today. We are taking the day off to catch up on our usual chores (laundry etc) and maybe go check out downtown Sault Ste Marie if we have the time (we tried their new Hub trail to try to get... Continue Reading →
Day 49 – Bruce Mines to Sault Ste Marie – At Velorution, a touring cyclist oasis
We started in foggy and muggy conditions along 638, which helped avoid the TCH to Sault Ste Marie. Although it was hilly, it was nice not to have to deal with the traffic in the misty weather. There was basically no services the whole way. We stopped in Ophir, population 12, for a quick snack.... Continue Reading →
Day 48 – Serpent River to Bruce Mines and fellow touring cyclists
We had an early start to the day to try to beat the holiday traffic on the TCH. We left about 7:45AM and found the traffic actually quite light on our side of the road almost the entire way. We even had a little tail wind and with good pavement we made it all the... Continue Reading →
Day 47 – Espanola to Serpent River, and the infamous Trans-Canada Highway
We said good bye to our fellow neighbour tenters and started out from our campground. Within 5 min, we ran into a fellow touring cyclist from Quebec. His name was Jean Francois and he was biking from Vancouver to Quebec. While we were chatting 3 touring cyclist stopped on the opposite side of the road.... Continue Reading →
Day 46 – Manitoulin Island to Espanola
We started out the day in Mindemoya and headed towards Little Current via the back roads. Shortly after starting out, we passed a sign that told us that we were in an area where they are reintroducing black bears! The roads were really nice, with hardly any traffic until we got to the turn onto... Continue Reading →
Day 45 – Tobermory to Manitoulin Island
We woke up a little later than we wanted but we still managed to catch the 7AM ferry to Manitoulin Island. The ferry was full and there were quite a few cars that could not get on and would have to wait until the next ferry in 3.5 hours. Throw that in the pile for... Continue Reading →
Day 44 – Port Elgin to Tobermory, ON
We started at 8AM today as we wanted to make it to Tobermory which was about 120km away. We encountered our first paved bike path since Orillia in Port Elgin. They had just installed it this summer, and it is a beautiful path along the water that goes almost all the way to Southampton. The... Continue Reading →
Day 43 – Kincardine to Port Elgin, ON
We left Shane's place (Thanks Shane for the great hospitality!!) for a quick 50km trip to Port Elgin. We had a tail wind and the roads were flat and the traffic was very light along the shore road. In Port Elgin we met up with the guys that I used to work with for some... Continue Reading →