The Nomads

Left Blue Lake Prov. Park, Vermillion Bay, Ont.

Temps: 15C

Cloudy and cool

It was another wet night and the gear was put away damp.

We stopped so late last night that there were no campsites left but at a reduced rate they provided us with a flat grassy place for our tent. So, in the morning we had no picnic table and the ground was too wet to sit on and make coffee and breakfast so we headed out without and planned to stop somewhere on the way. We found a tourist info center with picnic tables about an hour later and stopped for coffee and oatmeal then headed out again. The weather was cold and damp so we didn’t stop until several hours later when we pulled in to a Tim Horton’s for a warm up.

While there I got to talking in French with some bikers from Quebec who were doing the same thing. There we met a couple, Eric and Jocelyn from Répentigny with each their own bike, and Denis from L’Éstrie, well actually, Magog in the eastern townships to be exact. The couple were headed to Whistler but Denis was headed the same direction as us so we decided to travel together. Denis doesn’t spare the horses so it was a fast ride with him as a radar decoy, which he had agreed to. He was on his way back from Alaska, couldn’t speak a word of English to save his soul, and was extremely happy to have company he could communicate with as well as an interpreter for the rest of his trip home. He had encountered some problems with his bike on the trip and had had great difficulty trying to resolve them with no English.

Denis was camping as well and we pulled up for the night in the Stillwater tent and trailer park on the outskirts of Nipigon, northwest of Lake Superior just before dark.

Kilometres - Daytrip: 540 km total: 28,514

Gas: $48

# posted by Richard and Susie @ 3:01 PM