Life is a highway , no , life is the open road !!!: Day 70

The transfer from big to small truck

September 3

Well it was a different day today , first we slept in , I got up around 7 I think . It is ferry catching day and there is just a little riding and a lot of waiting to be done today .

First order was empty the laundry hampers a task that a lot of ridders did last night but I did this morning, the continents had to be separated into carry on for the ferry and a bag to go over to Newfoundland in the small truck as the big one is now no longer our truck.

That operation done it was time to slowly get ready for our 43 km ride to North Sydney for the ferry boarding at around 11.30 . We left camp around 9.30 in no hurry , right of the bat presented with another climb up Kellys Mountain ( 240 meter) this time , at least not as steep as the others, we conquered it easily !! and we also had another breathtaking descent down to the Great Bras d’Or Channel, amazing view and fun descent !!!.

We got into North Sydney early , went to the assembly point and then proceeded to town , first for ice cream and beer as it was another scorcher of a day , then we walked around town , a Tim Hortons stop was done and we decided to check on the assembly area before heading out to dinner , we were lucky to arrive just as they started to load the bikes on the truck for the ferry crossing , only 30 bikes fit and the other 10 had to be walk ons. We got ours on the truck and then changed out of our biking cloths and headed back into town for our last dinner together as a group Ed, Janice, Murray and myself , we ended up at the Black Spoon and had one of the best dinners of the whole trip !!!.

From there it was back to the assembly area to pick up boarding passes, on arrival we found there was live music on the go and the whole park full of cars watching and as one singer finished they would honk there horns in appreciation ,apparently this is a weekly occurrence . John and young Mark got up and played , it was a fun evening !!!

The hurricane was staying away luckily tracking on a more northerly course so it looked like it was going to miss us , all the same the ferry was scheduled to load an hour early and the prediction was that the port would be closed at 8 in the morning because of the high winds expected.

More waiting at the terminal and finally around 11.30 we boarded

There is an excitement in the air together with apprehension as we expect to be hit buy the tropical storm before arriving in Newfoundland , but we prefer while sailing then while biking .

We are off to sea !!!!

Total ridden today: 43.4 Average speed: 18.6 - Ridding time : 2.21