Today was the day of bridge excitement. First we crossed the St. Lawrence via Salaberry-de-Valleyfield. A good crossing on a bike path on the top of a dam. But extremely confusing to find. We did finally get going in the right direction, with the help of Chris' french.
Next was the Beauharmious fiasco. We came to a impassible bridge (at least legally on a bike), and ended up going on a 35 km detour to find a bridge we were allowed to cross on our bikes. 35km is a long way for a detour if you are on your bike!!
And then finally we tried to cross the Mercier Bridge onto the island of Montreal to find that it was under construction and not open until 7:45 pm! ARGH We will not publish how we crossed this great divide, however it was long and it was not to our liking!
We finally arrived at my cousin's house in down town Montreal at about 7:20 pm. We had hoped for a 3:00 pm landing, and a wait for him to come home from work, in a quant coffee shop, but it was not to be.
SO we have now shown that we can really do 160 km in a day....as we have done it twice in the last 3 days. Hmmm.
We did enjoy a great dinner and good company with cousin Ian, and a dry night at his house...
Did I mention the torrential down pour we rode through with storm sewers overflowing and cars making bow waves in west Montreal? Ah but that is an other story.
We are now warm dry, and sleepy......it was a very good day.
No comments:
Post a Comment