Quebec City to Riviere Ouelle Day 57

This row of businesses/residences barely fits between the street and the rock wall that towers
behind them.

The view along he path to the ferry. At the top of this rock wall are the streets of Old Quebec City.


The ferry we should have caught going over to Levis.

The famous Chateau Frotenac in Old Quebec City.

The area of St.-Jean-Port-Joli is home to many artists. Some lawn ornament
s??
I thought this one would look good in Akerleyville, Paula and Brian???

Terri wanted to bring this home but it would not fit in her bike trunk.

One of the smallest churches we found.

Mike, I would like the house painted this color by the time I come home??

A beautiful sunset in Riviere Ouelle.

Can you believe those colors?


Rest day yesterday in Quebec City was not totally a rest day. We did not have any laundry but we had bike work, the blog and the drying of our very wet tents to contend with. The rooms we stayed in were quite small and we were expected to keep our bikes in the room. The recumbent would have taken up all the floor space so I managed to get a storage room to put it in. We had muggy weather the whole time we were there and with no air conditioning it may it very uncomfortable for sleeping. We in fact had a nap before supper last evening as we had slept poorly the night before. No cross breeze so even leaving the windows open did not help. We were glad however to miss the couple hours of rain last evening. Our breakfasts were in the cafeteria and the food had no taste to it. As a result, our rest day lunch and dinner was at the mall. We are looking forward to getting home to our regular diets, we really miss the fresh vegetables.

Our ride out of Quebec City was not near as stressful as the ride in on Thursday. As it turned out there were several cyclists that found getting to the campus nearly impossible by way of the map, some were fortunate enough to have met cyclists who rode them in. The streets in the city are hyphenated and they have been going through some name changes over the last couple of years. We were thankful the people we stopped to ask were able to communicate with us well enough for us to understand. It also helped that all we had to say was "Laval University". Our first turn this morning had a detour through some construction. For fear of getting lost we walked the bikes across the lawns until we could get on the road again.

Today was the first day of the whole tour that we rode in in the same clothes we rode out in. There was no need for layers and so no layers to remove. It was muggy this morning and threatened rain but we stayed dry all day. The temperature was around 25C at the high point. Not much air movement though when we stopped.

We traveled out from the university and down over the hill to the ferry over to Levis. There was a nice path to ride for much of this trip to the ferry. Terri and I were taking a picture of what we thought was our ferry only to see another leave the dock. We had missed the ramp to enter. The next ferry left about 20 minutes later. Once we were off the ferry we were on a bike path for about 7 km and then onto route 132 which we stayed on for the rest of the 142 km trip. The scenery was great, through some small towns and farm areas and with the St. Lawrence within site for most of the way. The water was very muddy and it looked like there was a lot of scum but it seems that from the recent rain, the water was just stirred up. The towns are strung out along this secondary highway. The road surface was broken up in many places which made the ride a bit rough at times but the traffic was good and we found overall the ride was very pleasant. Some very gentle terrain for most of the way so we could get some speed up. We had our lunch stop at a Tim's and then afternoon tea at a small cafe.

One very interesting town we rode through was St-Jean-Port-Joli. It is home to many artists especially sculpters. You saw some of their work in the pictures. We were not in a position to shop and did not take the time to get off the bikes and venture into any of the studios but could see a lot of their works from the road.

The province of Quebec has been able to make cycling a great sport for the average person. We have seen many cyclists out over the last several days and the ride along 132 would be great for a days outing. There was a sign forbidding anyone under the age of 12 riding without an adult. You also see many signs indicating that cars and bikes share the road.

Our camp tonight in Riviere Quelle provided a great sunset as you can see from the pictures. I was having my bike tended to by a couple of guys from the group so Terri went down to take the pictures. ( I have been having some trouble with my front brake rubbing and without any idea of how to adjust it, I had to ask for help today, seems to be good now)There are also very few mosquitos out tonight.

Our ride tomorrow is relatively short, 117 km so we should be able to get into camp early and enjoy a couple more leisure hours.