Journey Notes

We got an especially late start today due to a wonderful breakfast that my Aunt put together for us. It was a little after noon before I got into the pedals.

After looking at the maps a bit last night and this morning, we decided not to return to Bancroft to continue the ride but to leave from Lake St. Peter, just a few kilometers from the lake we stayed at last night. It was a little further than the Bancroft route but had a lot more options for camping. The roads looked like they'd be less trafficked and they were.

Luckily, Rochelle phoned the campgound and got some directions as Google had the campground about 8km away at an OPP (Ontario Provincial Police) station.

The roads were again mostly over rolling hills and between lakes. It was very beautiful but I was starting to feel all that climbing over the last 3 days in my legs. I am hoping for a little flatter land tomorrow but I suspect that will not be the case.

Rochelle found a really nice park to eat lunch in. It had several of these ovens or BBQs through out it. I am not quite sure how anyone would use them.

In Barry's Bay they had a great park dedicated to Janusz Zurakowski, a test pilot from the area who flew the Avro Arrow.

We are getting a bit behind so I want to get in a much longer ride tomorrow. I haven't quite figured out the route yet but we should get fairly close to Ottawa and even jump over into Quebec.

There were a couple of milestones crossed today. VanGo saw 377,777.7 km on the odometer. 6 sevens has got to be pretty lucky! I passed the 5,000 km (3,100 mile) point in riding. About 62% done!