Another hot, humid day. The landscape got increasingly more interesting (read: less horizontal), however, as we approached the Ontario border. Also, though our climbing muscles may have disappeared somewhere around Calgary, its amazing how the physical stimulation provided by a few hills can really make the kilometres zoom by. They also made us very tired, however, and we were quite exhausted by the time we reached Kenora. The impressive sight of Kenora, situated as it is at the top of the mysterious and unwieldy Lake of the Woods, was reward enough for our efforts, and we celebrated with a foot-long sandwich at Subway. We had hoped to make it past Kenora to Rushing River Provincial Park tonight, but our legs were too tired, and so we bailed out at a commercial campground on the city limits called the Willows. The owner there was a nice fellow, and told us we had just missed a doozy of a thunderstorm the day before. Our luck, it seems is still with us!
Stats
Av. Spd.: 17.8km/h
Mx. Spd.: 45.2km/h
Most eye-opening juxtaposition: The very visible population of (mostly) white Canadian vacationers with lovely cottages on the lake vs. the very visible population of First Nations people begging on the mall sidewalk.
is that a new biking shirt Caroline is sporting?? Quite fetching!
ReplyDeleteIt's great to see a Caroline in some of the pictures. We understand one person takes pictures while the other poses, but it does, sometimes, seem as though (just maybe) you're travelling with an imaginary friend.
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