By Sarah:
We woke up this morning at our usual 6 o’clock alarm and set to packing up the trailer and preparing for the relatively short (82 miles) day ahead of us. Ellen was greeted with a friendly good morning in the form of some rain showering down from a tree. To her dismay, she looked up to find an innocent raccoon staring back at her.
Raccoons weren’t the only animals we came into contact today. One German Shepard was so interested in our pace line this afternoon, he followed…err…chased… us for over 2 miles. Parker was the first to notice the large, intimidating dog galloping after us, and he quickly sped ahead to Gwen and Ellie, “GWEN. I am NOT KIDDING. There is a dog chasing us,” and sped on ahead to warn Ellen and I who were casually biking along trying to figure out our next turn. One look back at that dog, and the string of 7 people pedaling as hard as they could away from it, and we were off. Those last 5 miles went by real fast.
Everyone in Canada is friendly. We haven’t been mooned, or flipped off, we’ve only been yelled at once (which we deserved for riding in the middle of the road), and everyone we talk to is up for a good conversation and more than willing to share stories and knowledge of this area.
The last 10 miles of our journey followed Lake Eerie, and we enjoyed the view of green-blue crashing waves and wild flowers. Angie rode the entire day with us without a single complaint; he kept up with us so easily, we were really surprised when he said, “I’m pretty tired, but mostly I’m just really hungry.” Story of our lives.
Written by Sarah
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