Beausejour to Kenora

We have just enjoyed a nice treat in this bakery/bed and breakfast. It was hard to believe they were out of bread but our appetites were satiated with cinnamon buns and date filled cookies.
Stephanie Yorke from Fredericton and Barry from Beamsville enjoying their treats on the veranda. Stephanie is an English major soon to set off the England on a Commonwealth Scholarship.
A very quaint little house but you would not believe the add-on the back where the full size industrial kitchen is located.
This is the guys Tour du Canada look. Tousled hair and a few days growth. He gets a makeover on rest days.
A neat sign. The waitress in the restaurant where we had our break could not think of anyone famous but she said her sister wanted to be a doctor and maybe she would be the one to make her town famous.
Rock hard evidence of the Canadian Sheild.
Terri and I entering Ontario at 4pm.
from left to right, Terri, Terry form Vancouver Island, me and Stephanie.
The view of the water at our campsite for our rest day. I don't think anyone went swimming. It rained on and off just about every hour on the hour for ten minutes today.


We thought we had our longest day earlier in the week but this topped it at 180 km. This was the sixth day of continuous riding and were were all more than ready for this rest day.

Our camp in Beausejour was infested with skitters when we got up so we ate our breakfast and were out of camp by 7:15. We saw the flat terrain give way to more rolling hills and we dealt with a light but steady rain for most of the day. The landscape reminded us of Manitoulin Island and we were treated to sights of the Canadian Shield. We crossed over into Ontario at about 4 pm and that we did not have rain after that. We have been warned about Highway 17 but the part we rode on yesterday was freshly paved with a nice shoulder. I am told this will disappear when we leave tomorrow and head to Thunder Bay with a few stops in between. I am also told the good weather may leave us.

We can feel ourselves getting stronger. To date we have now cycled 2804 km. so I guess that is to be expected.

During the day we came across a 21 year old Bristish fellow named Phillip who is doing basically the same ride we are, on his own. We had met him in Binscarth and others had met him in Kindersley. He joined us for supper and Patrick's birthday cake and he set off this morning (our rest day) to his next camp. His route is loosely planned as he goes along. Terri and I thought he was very brave and we decided we like knowing where we going each night. He said he had to camp beside the road on a couple of occasions.

I cleaned my bike in Beausejour and so just lad laundry to do on this rest day. I was thankful as the blog gave me more trouble today than I was counting on. I was so proud of myself for making notes on the computer at the end of each day. All I would have to do is cut and past. This I did this morning and added the pictures. After I had four days done I decided to post them and lo and behold the site would not accept the narrative and therefore would not publish the post. After much consulting with others more tech
oriented than I am my fears were confirmed. As I thought, the Blogspot site would not accept the characters I had cut and pasted. So....I had to redo it all including uploading the pictures again. At least now I know for next time. I am however getting more efficient and have been down loading my pictures from my camera each day and putting them into folders. Consequently it is not as smooth as it should be. As you will notice one of the postings is out of order. My apologies, did everything I knew how to correct it. Guess the learning curve on this blogging activity is still on the steep side.

Terri went downtown to the bike store and we plan to walk over to Walmart after I am done here. Supper will be found between here and there. I think that will include more of the chocolates Mike sent me.

Until the next rest day or the next internet access point, stay safe, be healthy.