Thursday, August 13, 2009

Fast forward to Halifax!

WE MADE IT !!!!
YEHAW!
Larissa and I are currently resting our legs in Halifax, Nova Scotia after a gruelling month long journey!
What a journey it was!
We realize we left a rather sizeable gap in our blog entries but fatigue, adventure and lack of access kept us from adding regular posts.
Rather then try to enter all the details in full form, i'll list off all of our stops and interesting events in point form to speed things up.

Day 10: Terrebonne to trois rivieres (almost 140km!) - Awoken by park ranger saying we were lucky that security didn't fine us for sleeping in the park (he was rather happy no one bothered us though, he seemed to support our trip). Bike through Celine Dion's hometown (charlemagne!). One of the longest days of the trip, got lost in Trois Rivieres late at night, meet up with Sebastien and Nathalie from couch surfing.com.
They are fantastic hosts with lots of charisma and great stories to share, not to mention wild dance dance revolutionists!

DAy 11: A late start saw us leave later and plan for a shorter distance on this day. We stopped at a small local vegetable stand and purchased some corn on the cob with the husk to cook over an open fire. Cycled to Sainte Genevieve de la batiscan and camped in a sub par campground but really made it our own. The corn experiment had mixed results: Sean noticed that the cobs were turning into ash and suggested that perhaps it was the right time to remove them from the flame, larissa thought they needed a few more minutes. mmmm...black stuff.

Day 12: RAIN! We had certainly been lucky up to this point considering the minimal amount of rain that we had to deal with, but we more then made up for it this day.
It rained from the second we left our tent until we went to bed that night. We were meeting good friends in St Catherine de la jacques Cartier and had to bike quite the distance through the horrible rain and head winds. Larissa was also feeling quite bad on this day and really showed her toughness. We got our first taste of the mountains that quebec would have to offer us as we biked through the northern back roads to get to the small town. We also snapped some shots of some cute yacks just yackin' it up. Yeehaw!

More will be comming soon