Day 93. July 26. Thursday. Campbelltown to Bathurst, New Brunswick

The ride today started out very nice and actually would have been very good all day if it hadn’t rained.  I left right after breakfast and at about 35 miles the rain started and hasn’t stopped yet.  I was the only one to ride the whole way, 70  miles, half of that in varying degrees of rain.  It was a warm rain so I didn’t even put on my rain jacket.  There wasn’t a dry speck on me anywhere when I got in.  And I was covered in gritty sand from head to toe.  What a mess.

I passed more beautiful fireweed today.  There was a 5 acre field of the stuff.  Absolutely beautiful.

I didn’t get a picture of the field because by that time it had started to sprinkle. Just not worth digging out the camera.

I also saw another logging operation and instead of piles of logs, they had stacks of lumber in great big stacks just like the logs were yesterday.  I counted at least 8 rows that were long and high.  Probably more there but they were behind where I couldn’t count them. Again, no picture because of rain.

There was one place today along the water where you could see Quebec and New Brunswick.  Quebec had those tall, steep mountains all the way down to the water and on the Brunswick side, they were gentle hills that went up high gradually.  Nothing like the Quebec side.  Hope you can see the difference in the pictures.

A few days ago we were riding through the fjords on the Highway of the Fjords.  Yesterday when we followed the river, there was barely room for a railroad track and the road and then the terrain went straight up.  Couldn’t get a decent picture.  I was so glad to see that New Brunswick didn’t seem to have those humongous steep hills.

Hills are gonna take on a whole new meaning after riding in Quebec.  Today we only had a small rise in the road.

I updated yesterday’s miles.

70.3 miles today.  3070.2 total

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Retired musician, now gardener and cyclist. View all posts by bikeral2000