Fitzroy Bay Ont to Alfred Ont
Depart: 7:00am
Arrive: 5:00 pm
Daily Distance: 141.05 km
Time: 7:37.58
Odo: 4960.9 km
Max: 41.9 km/ hour
Avg speed: 18.5 km/hr
Weather: Sunny 21 deg
Roads: Flat
Shoulders : mixed (A+ - C-)
I'm hoping the racoons found my bran bars helpful today, seems there was a party in my panniers last night.
Managed to go through Ottawa along the bike paths that followed the Ottawwa River, its a mixed use path and there were plenty of people using it today. I stopped at the Parliment Buildings, got someone to take my picture and immediately became lost.
Its not easy finding people to help you with directions as most are tourist themselves, others keep walking and don't even aknowledge you, that'd never happen in Saskatchewan.
I was helped by one group of cyclist who had me fiollow them to near the end of the path where I was met by a fellow named Doug who escorted me right to the Highway I needed to be on.
Doug is retired and has become a proffesional cyclist, trouble is, no ones paying him.
I'm 22km from the border at Hawksbury where I will be crossing tomorrow morning for my final entry into Quebec. Lorraine has sent me some great info on taking the route verte all the way into Montreal. Not sure whether I'll get right into the city tomorrow, I may have a reduced distance day and try and get out of the city monday morning to avoid Sunday afternoon traffic and dealing with finding my way around at the end of the day.
