Day 106 Sunday August 22, 2010 Distance 102.00 km. Time 5 hr. 27 min. Total so far 7522.68 km.
It was overcast this morning but everything was dry since we were under the canopy in Beaver Lake Park in Erinsville. My breakfast this morning was a butter tart and a date square and a banana. I'll have to change that when I get home! It was drizzling when we left. We decided to take some side roads to cut over to Hwy. 13. They were dirt roads with no traffic at all. It was very quiet but in a few places it was soft for Silver's back wheel. On one uphill I had to unclip and get off because her back wheel just couldn't grip anymore. Hwy. 13 led us to Hwy. 37 and into Tweed. I'm glad we didn't do that long stretch yesterday like we had planned. It would have been miserable in the rain. We followed Hwy. 38 past Stoco Lake from Tweed. It is all farm country with crops and cattle, and there are also horses. We also saw some sheep and goats. At one place a dog ran after Dave, it was a young coon dog and wouldn't go back to its owner until we both bicycled back to its driveway. There were several dogs that barked and would have chased us, but they were tied and fenced in. Thank goodness! My heart rate always goes up though. The leaves on some maple trees are turning red, providing contrast colours as we ride. Fall is coming. We passed through the little places of Crookston and Springbrook, and then entered Northumberland County. We passed a church that has been turned into a brewing company. Later we saw the sign for the Municipality of Trent Hills, population 12, 500. After passing Petherick's Corners and a huge hill where my chain wouldn't drop down from middle to small sprocket making me jump off the bike, we finally came along the Trent-Severn waterway at Lock 14. It was a short ride into the town of Campbellford, which is famous for: The Ranney Gorge Suspension Bridge, the World's Famous Chocolate factory outlet (Sarah and Melissa both gave us a bag of chocolates) and Ferris Provincial Park. We stopped at the No Frills grocery store for chocolate milk. Several people talked to us about our trip. We took the milk down to the canal but the picnic tables were wet so we found a bench that was a little drier and had a quick lunch because it was starting to drizzle. In fact, all day it had drizzled, but not really rained. Hwy. 30 out of Campbellford was very busy with no shoulder so I made Dave ride behind me for the short distance to the turn off to Hwy. 29 which led us to the little artistic community of Warkworth. Dave did a little shopping and then we headed up the hill out of town on Hwy. 24 and turned off it following a high ridge back road to Sandy Flats. We should have stopped at the Funny Farm (ha, ha) but kept going down a straight stretch, around a couple curves and onto Bulls Rd looking for the first house on the left. ---continued on next blog---
It was overcast this morning but everything was dry since we were under the canopy in Beaver Lake Park in Erinsville. My breakfast this morning was a butter tart and a date square and a banana. I'll have to change that when I get home! It was drizzling when we left. We decided to take some side roads to cut over to Hwy. 13. They were dirt roads with no traffic at all. It was very quiet but in a few places it was soft for Silver's back wheel. On one uphill I had to unclip and get off because her back wheel just couldn't grip anymore. Hwy. 13 led us to Hwy. 37 and into Tweed. I'm glad we didn't do that long stretch yesterday like we had planned. It would have been miserable in the rain. We followed Hwy. 38 past Stoco Lake from Tweed. It is all farm country with crops and cattle, and there are also horses. We also saw some sheep and goats. At one place a dog ran after Dave, it was a young coon dog and wouldn't go back to its owner until we both bicycled back to its driveway. There were several dogs that barked and would have chased us, but they were tied and fenced in. Thank goodness! My heart rate always goes up though. The leaves on some maple trees are turning red, providing contrast colours as we ride. Fall is coming. We passed through the little places of Crookston and Springbrook, and then entered Northumberland County. We passed a church that has been turned into a brewing company. Later we saw the sign for the Municipality of Trent Hills, population 12, 500. After passing Petherick's Corners and a huge hill where my chain wouldn't drop down from middle to small sprocket making me jump off the bike, we finally came along the Trent-Severn waterway at Lock 14. It was a short ride into the town of Campbellford, which is famous for: The Ranney Gorge Suspension Bridge, the World's Famous Chocolate factory outlet (Sarah and Melissa both gave us a bag of chocolates) and Ferris Provincial Park. We stopped at the No Frills grocery store for chocolate milk. Several people talked to us about our trip. We took the milk down to the canal but the picnic tables were wet so we found a bench that was a little drier and had a quick lunch because it was starting to drizzle. In fact, all day it had drizzled, but not really rained. Hwy. 30 out of Campbellford was very busy with no shoulder so I made Dave ride behind me for the short distance to the turn off to Hwy. 29 which led us to the little artistic community of Warkworth. Dave did a little shopping and then we headed up the hill out of town on Hwy. 24 and turned off it following a high ridge back road to Sandy Flats. We should have stopped at the Funny Farm (ha, ha) but kept going down a straight stretch, around a couple curves and onto Bulls Rd looking for the first house on the left. ---continued on next blog---
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