Folks as you can see there are large spands of time where it has been difficult to get to the internet access so I reckon that I should give you a quick update and then fill in the blanks later....
Its June 20th now and I'm at Thunder Bay which is about 1600km's round....I've gone round the top of Lake Superior after having travelled from Ottawa (where I spent a day of rest).
The route has worked out as follows
Quebec, la trois rivieres, joliette, la plaisance, ottawa, pembroke, mattawa, mattawa, sturgeon falls, espanola, ironbridge, sault ste marie, montreal river, wawa, white river, marathon, terrace bay, nipigan and now Thunder Bay where I'm having a second rest day... Each place I've written is where I have stayed for a night and currently in the duke out between motels and campgrounds...the motels are winning it.....
Basically with the cycling each day I have found it physically and mentally tough and have opted for motels at more places than camping to help myself recover better and help me find my feet....once the first few days enthusaism faded away it has been a challenge to get mileage done and the clean bed motel existence has helped lower the challenge to a level i could cope with....
The small things become bigger things either in your favour or against you it seems so far. Getting up early to avoid the rising winds in the afternoon, cleaning cycling gear each day, eating a 'four square' meal each day and getting away from a host of midge life has made the 6 hour cycling days more do-able.
Its funny too that in many places the things you see are on route rather than in the towns of villages so there aren't many reasons not to get more kilometres under your wheels each day...
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