The Nomads

Left Magog, Québec

Temps: 10C

Raining and cold

We left Denis’ place for the last leg of the journey at quarter after nine NB time.

Our last day of the trip and it had to be in wind and cold, heavy, pouring rain so thick that I had to squint to see ten yards in front of the bike. We were in four lanes of heavy traffic and doing eighty to ninety miles an hour to keep up and every time a truck went by I couldn’t see anything for the next fifty feet. It was the worst driving conditions we had yet encountered and within two hours my rain suit was useless and I was soaked through, for the first time, from helmet to bootstraps!

The first part of the ride through the townships toward Sherbrooke was quite scenic. This area is surrounded by ski country: Sutton, Mount Orford, Owl’s Head, and further south, Jay Peak.

Can’t say much about the ride once we hit the Sherbrooke Expressway or the 20 because I couldn’t see much past the highway until we got to dégélis!

By the time we got to NB the sky was cloudy and threatening but we didn’t get any rain.

We stopped in to Sue’s folks on the way but there was no-one home, back on the road and home in Fredericton not much after nine, cold, wet and tired but glad to be back!

We got out of the wet gear, had a leisurely late supper and celebrated with a cold bottle of our favourite Moselle, had a hot shower, and , well you don’t need to know the rest….!

Kilometres - Daytrip: 892 km TRIP TOTAL: 31,212

Gas: $73
Lodging: Be it ever so humble, HOME SWEET HOME!

# posted by Richard and Susie @ 3:21 PM