Day 112- Windmills!

Day 112 Saturday, August 28, 2010 Distance 87.12 km. time 5 hr. 35 min. Total so far 7767.81 km. We were awakened at about 4 am. by what I thought was a big raccoon and what Dave thought was a big rat in the garbage pails near the pavilion in Anchor Park in Holland Landing. Today was another day of hills. That would make it 3 in a row which our legs were feeling. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky so it promised to be a hot day. We followed Hwy. 8 to Bradford where we stopped at Giant Tiger and I bought hand wipes while Dave talked to a big guy outside who used to live in Sault Ste. Marie. Then we went to the Walmart and I got a new little notebook as my journal will be full after today and also vitamin pills for myself. That was at 9 am and I was taking off my arm warmers already. We took Hwy. 88, turned right at Bondhead to Hwy. 27 and shortly after a left to Hwy. 1 until we reached Beeton where there were lots of signs that land was going to be developed into communities. We turned right there to Hwy. 56 which led us to Nicolston and Hwy. 89. They were doing construction on a bridge there and we had to negotiate a narrow part beside the cars but I was lucky enough to get a police car behind me that stayed behind and made all the other traffic wait. I gave him a nice thank you wave after I had more room. I do that for all people that wait politely behind instead of squeezing by or forcing cars off the other side of the road. On the maps, all these roads look like back roads but they were all busy today. All these towns are developing land into houses and I think they are all suburbs of Toronto. Alliston has the homestead of Sir Frederick Banting who helped discover insulin. There was also a big rubber ducky in front of a car dealer that I took a photo of for Caroline. We stopped for lunch at a grocery store. Dave bought me a bottle of Gatorade. I have been getting a bottle at every store to replenish my electrolytes. Dave came out with a huge 2 quart bottle of pop because it was on sale and I got to carry it all afternoon in my foam roll because he couldn’t fit it in any of his side pockets. Lucky me! Lots of people are coming up to us and asking about our trip and complimenting us on our endeavours. One guy noticed the NFL. flag because he was from Stevensville, NFL. but is working in Ontario. It was really hot and the wind was blasting in our faces and the road was busy as we went along Hwy. 89 . There was a tiny edge. It was very trying for me because I was watching Dave ahead, my gear changes below which weren’t working well today,and the cars behind in my rear view mirror. Dave was suffering from the heat and hills today and from breaking the wind. On one uphill about 5 km. before Shelburne, a spoke snapped on Blackie’s rear. We went back down the hill to a farm house and Dave changed the spoke by their driveway entrance. My legs were glad for the break. We made it to Shelburne and Dave wanted to get a motel but the road was going to turn and the wind was supposed to be more on our side so I found out that there was a campground up the Hwy. at Corbetton which was just short of where he had wanted to end today. The wind was only a LITTLE better. We must have passed by over a hundred wind turbines on the way. When we got there, the campground was a little ways off the road but there was Skyview Motel right on the highway. Dave was hot, tired and pushed for the motel so I wasn’t going to refuse a second time. The only negative was that the restaurant next to it was closed somehow for today so we ate a little left over lunch food for supper. I turned Silver over and tried to get her to work better. We called Dave’s sister Mary, our daughter Melissa, and our daughter Emily, who has just returned from fighting forest fires in BC.