Crossing the river
August 21
We left Quebec City behind today , 10 km through the city and we hoped on the ferry to cross over to the south side of the river where we had 7 km of beautiful paved bike paths to follow then back onto the road. The river always visible on our left grew wider as we went , the road basically had houses al along it most of the way and every few km a very pretty village , we stopped for our usual breakfast around the 50 km mark , I had a omelet as usual but this time it had smoked salmon in it and was delicious !!!!
I am beginning to think that perhaps saying that I am cycling across Canada is not quite right , I think that what I am actually doing is eating my way across the country !!!!!! and to illustrated this point not 20 minutes after breakfast a very charming cafe was spotted and we stopped to have an amazing home made apple crumble with home made ice cream !!!!.
The ride itself was easy a few small hill at the beginning and then the wind was in our favor and blow us along at a good clip. I did get a few pictures but found it hard to get good ones of the river as it was not a very sunny day and a bit of a haze seemed to be over it at times .
Our progress was interrupted by a flat tire , about 7 km from home Janice all of a sudden pulled over and soon discovered her problem was a flat rear tire , we inflated it and got her another two km down the road and repeated the procedure two more times but by then it would not hold so with just a couple of km left to get into camp we had to change her tire , found that a piece of glass had put a hole through it , a boot was placed and new tube and on we went into camp.
Of interest ( disturbing interest ) we found out first that Janice’s air pump was full of water and then when I got mine out we found out it too was full of water , luckily Murray had his mounted differently on the bike and his was ok , all three pumps are the same make , tomorrow I am going to have to dry mine out and lubricated it and hopefully it will work as it use to.
Total Ridden today: 143.5 - Average speed: 23.4 - Ridding time: 6.07
Eating again !!!!!
Rest stop along the river
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