May19 Long Sault- Gananoque

M-100.02,T-8:34:13,AVG-11.66,El-1858

Kodak moment!!A perfect day to a long day of cycling with Goodxcharly's appearing over the horizon right as my ododmeter was rolling over for my first century of the trip.I got Raj, Charly's manager to help  me capture this coincidence. I'm on the right path.

May17-18 Montreal-GlenderryPark-LongSaultPark

                                                                                

May18 Glenderry-LongSault

M-51.39,T-5:02:05,AVG-10:20,El-1075

                      M-49,Doughnutz-4
                                                                                                       

Great riding here in Canada as usual,why would you expect anything else. I'm taking route 5 on the route verte network most of the way to Niagara Falls. Only 670 k of bikelanes and paths.I haven't ridden anything like this before as you can probably tell by my enthusiasm.

Yesterday, late noon as 5pm rolled around I came across the Glenderry park, closed,bummer. But I went ahead  and took a spin around the St.Lawrence frontage park and I couldn't let it go by. I just needed fresh water for my morning coffee as the parks water wasn't to appealing. Smelling like iodine or something. Maybe antifreeze to keep the pipes from freezing up and it's not like I was in the middle of the Mojave desert as you can see in the foreground.Well off I went on my trek for water and low and behold theres a church back in the woods to remedy my problem. Anyway, got the water and I had a great night of camping along the St.lawrence. Price was right to.

I got off to a 9 to 5 early start and noticed my map case was gone as I was riding west.............flew off some where...... so back I tracked a few times and couldn't come up with it. It had some
notes I've been taking for this journal to make the updates a little easier. The other stuff I didn't care so much about.
So I'm at the Glenderry library this afternoon changing some passwords,nothing to important etc. just to cover my bases whilst hoping I would get a random email from a good samaritan who came across a map case. On the upside of it all, there always is. It got me to the Tourist info. center for some  replacement maps and brochures and the gal working there,cute and personable, gave me some great ideas and sites to see along the way on  2 on Lake Ontario and St.Lawrence.Which never would of happened if I hadn't lost my map case.I still can't believe bike paths all the way to Michigan, its sooo good here in Canada. 

ART

waterfronttrail.org      If you would like to check out my next 670k.       Yippeee.

    Just another day riding the Waterfront trail.

May16 Louisville-Montreal

M93.14,T-8:42:44,AVG10.68,El-11.65

My earliest start today,7 am. I'm hoping my theory holds true after seeing all the cathedrals in the picturesque villages along the St.Lawrence that most French Canadians should be in church this morning and I'll have the roads to myself.............at least till noon. Hockey playoffs to were in town, as I noticed the unusual bustling city center as I arrived on the bike. Hockey definetly trumped church for clearing the streets here in Canada for a nice sunday evening ride.

It was my best day by far on the Chemin du Roy,a nice clear cool country morning with the route leaving 138 for a trafficless day and as you can see in the picture above, a sample of the morning ride.

I met some other cyclistes today to which have been few and far between since the beginning of my trip. By all the touring publications I read, websites, and blogs I thought I would be in rider nervana and we would be running into each other. Not the case.

Terry from my neck of the woods, Comox BC, was only on a eastward bound leg of a round the world solo tour. He had some great insights for me on touring and some routes to think about westward bound, which I'm considering.
 Phillip and Morena who I met at a lunch stop (below) were just getting there feet wet in touring with a trek out from Montreal for a couple of days, and loving it,it appeared, as they reeled me in and flew by, as I had left first, youth!! Mark?(I put the ? being I had 4 names to remember that day, a large task.) who I met while floundering with my map. again pointed me in the right direction to the bridge I needed to cross to get to Montreal and he also through in some historical insites as we road along the canal path for a great day of cycling, again.

Phillip and Morena.

Mark,Montreal.