Category: Newfoundland and Labrador
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w with fish, bucket, bucket, candy cane
Read more: w with fish, bucket, bucket, candy cane47 km, 3 hours, Max temp 42 ¾Ñ§§Ò aka Phang-nga (if you are seeing gibberish, it may be that you don’t have the Thai font installed) We are having some fun with the Thai script. The characters have great shapes to them, such that you can image different things with the names. Unfortunately, there are…
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Out and about in St.John’s
Read more: Out and about in St.John’s20 km around St. John’s We had a delightful stay with Fraser and Judy. We spent several evenings enjoying wine and talking about various aspects of life. It was wonderful to have the chance to get to know them better and also nice to have “home” for the four days we were in St. John’s.…
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Detours, Tailwinds, and Trailers
Read more: Detours, Tailwinds, and Trailers88 km, 6.5 hrs The morning started out with a detour in search of fresh bread. Scott wanted to get back on the TCH right away (and head up a big hill to do so), but we had little food and didn’t know what would be available on the highway. We knew there was a…
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Camping at Bellevue Beach Park
Read more: Camping at Bellevue Beach Park6h 15 min, 78 km It was a good day riding today. Our average speed is still slow and the wind didn’t completely cooperate, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as it has been and the sun shone all day. It was a beautiful day riding, so we didn’t feel bad that we were not…
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A fellow cycle tourist
Read more: A fellow cycle tourist55 km, 4 h 30 min Our breakfast was fabulous again today, with toast made using fresh bread from the motel bakery. One thing to be said for Newfoundland and Labrador, there’s a bakery almost everywhere, with excellent fresh bread. Today we continued heading south, which meant more headwinds. The road was also rather hilly.…
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Charlottetown Newfoundland
Read more: Charlottetown Newfoundland75 km, 5h 30 min After a quiet night in the tent, Clyde and Linda fed us a tasty breakfast of bacon, eggs and toast, which was wonderfully fortifying for the day. For the first part of the day, we left the headwinds behind. Our progress was rather quick and we arrived at the outskirts…
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Clyde’s yard
Read more: Clyde’s yard70 km, 5h 50 min Today our progress was painfully slow. It was a beautifully sunny day; however, the headwinds slowed us dramatically. We planned to have lunch in Centreville – our midway point for the day. We didn’t arrive there until 3:30 pm, at which point we were tired and starving. The place we…
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It’ll be a bright, bright, bright, sunshiny day…
Read more: It’ll be a bright, bright, bright, sunshiny day…4 hr 20 min, 75 km Today was a beautiful sunny day, and we had some spectacular views of this part of the Newfoundland coast. The highway was much busier than usual. Unfortunately, the Trans Canada Highway is still closed at Gambo, and likely will be for several days. This means everyone who would normally…