Journey Notes

We woke up this morning to a little light rain that went away fairly quickly. The rest of the day was just cloudy although there was a few drops of rain throughout the day. The weather reports said I would have headwinds but I didn't notice. That was likely due to trees and urban the urban areas that I was riding in.

I rode most of the way on either very nice bicycle paths or very quiet shoreline roads with beautiful houses and interesting shops. The first stretch of path started near last night's campsite to Pointe-des-Cascades. These lead to a series of bridges that hoped from one small island to another, through some residential areas and then along the south shore of the island that Montreal is on.

We ate lunch at a small park on this shore and made our way up a canal, over a couple of bridges until we were on Ile Notre-Dame, the island where the Formula 1 and a NASCAR races are held each year. The track is open for driving and cycling (divided route) so Rochelle and I did one trip around the 4.361 km (2.71 mile) circuit on our bicycles and then I did one circuit just to see how fast I could do it (after already riding over 80 km). My time was 7:45. There were lots of cyclists training on that circuit.

After the ride we let VanGo do a lap. I didn't time it but given the 30 km/h speed limit, I think it was slower that me on a bicycle but VanGo got a chance to do some chicanes and curbs like a real race car!

We took another bridge over to St. Helen's Island where we saw the Biosphere.

We finally made it to the place where VanGo will rest for the next 10 days and our host made us a wonderful diner.

Tomorrow it is up early and heading to Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. We won't be making updates again until we come back to Montreal on August 6.