Day 58, Monday, August 28/ 06
New Glasgow to Port Hawkesbury, 132 km.
Had just fallen asleep last night when our cell phone woke me. It was Trevor with the # to acticate the Telus time card. We were down to only 2 minutes left on our pay and talk. It seemed to take awhile to get back to sleep. We had heard the howling and screaming of coyotes earlier...what a horrible noise that was. It sounded as if they had captured some dog!! Awful! I finally fell asleep and didn't wake up until 5. Rested until 5:30 when we dressed and packed up. Inna had a great breakfast for us. Last night Dave burned our photos to a CD. He had breakfast with us and was going to NB with a friend to pick up a generator. Inna drove us back to the Christian Fellowship church where we mustered and got ready for the day.
We have 2 new riders for this, our final Leg of the journey. Levina from PEI and Rod MacMillian (or MacIntosh?) from Saint John...go Saint John! yea.. We were on the road by 8. It was cool, but pleasant for cycling. Our first rest stop was in Kenziville, just outside Barney's River. From there it was on to Antigonish, a place where we lived from April 1982 until November 1983. We arrived at St. Ninnian's where we thought lunch was to be. Originally it was to be at St. Jame's United but it got changed. We seemed to spend tme just waiting about, not knowing what was happening. For me it was time wasted as I wanted to call an old friend, Nancy MacDonald, but I couln't tell her where we would be! We did end up at The Knights of Columbus Hall and had a wonderful meal of soup and sandwiches and carrot and chocolate cake for dessert. We didn't have much time to eat before we were on the road again.
Not long before our lunch stop, Joanne Derix had been injured in a collision with June. Apparently June made a sudden stop. Joanne's husband also crashed, but wasn't injured. Joanne went to hospital in Antigonish for x-rays as she injured her knee and elbow. She was quite shaken. We continued on the old #4 and the #104 when necessary. I enjoyed the gently rolling hils. There wasn't too much in the line of scenery until we hit Harve Boucher where we stopped at a Catholic church for snacks. I rode with Mary from Calgary for a bit today. She had done leg 1 with the group and surprised us by joining us in Charlottetown!
We headed down to the Canso Causeway where the police closed the road to traffic so we could pass. We were lucky in that the gate bridge opened to let some pleasure boats through, so got to see that! On to the Catholic church for supper. It was chicken drumsticks, flavoured rice, eggrolls...very tasty. Joanne returned from hospital...verdict: a broken kneecap! She is so dissapointed in not being able to ride anymore.
We are camping at a United Church. Great hot showers up the street at a beautiful complex which houses the Y. My odometer turned 6,660 km upon arrival here!
Had just fallen asleep last night when our cell phone woke me. It was Trevor with the # to acticate the Telus time card. We were down to only 2 minutes left on our pay and talk. It seemed to take awhile to get back to sleep. We had heard the howling and screaming of coyotes earlier...what a horrible noise that was. It sounded as if they had captured some dog!! Awful! I finally fell asleep and didn't wake up until 5. Rested until 5:30 when we dressed and packed up. Inna had a great breakfast for us. Last night Dave burned our photos to a CD. He had breakfast with us and was going to NB with a friend to pick up a generator. Inna drove us back to the Christian Fellowship church where we mustered and got ready for the day.
We have 2 new riders for this, our final Leg of the journey. Levina from PEI and Rod MacMillian (or MacIntosh?) from Saint John...go Saint John! yea.. We were on the road by 8. It was cool, but pleasant for cycling. Our first rest stop was in Kenziville, just outside Barney's River. From there it was on to Antigonish, a place where we lived from April 1982 until November 1983. We arrived at St. Ninnian's where we thought lunch was to be. Originally it was to be at St. Jame's United but it got changed. We seemed to spend tme just waiting about, not knowing what was happening. For me it was time wasted as I wanted to call an old friend, Nancy MacDonald, but I couln't tell her where we would be! We did end up at The Knights of Columbus Hall and had a wonderful meal of soup and sandwiches and carrot and chocolate cake for dessert. We didn't have much time to eat before we were on the road again.
Not long before our lunch stop, Joanne Derix had been injured in a collision with June. Apparently June made a sudden stop. Joanne's husband also crashed, but wasn't injured. Joanne went to hospital in Antigonish for x-rays as she injured her knee and elbow. She was quite shaken. We continued on the old #4 and the #104 when necessary. I enjoyed the gently rolling hils. There wasn't too much in the line of scenery until we hit Harve Boucher where we stopped at a Catholic church for snacks. I rode with Mary from Calgary for a bit today. She had done leg 1 with the group and surprised us by joining us in Charlottetown!
We headed down to the Canso Causeway where the police closed the road to traffic so we could pass. We were lucky in that the gate bridge opened to let some pleasure boats through, so got to see that! On to the Catholic church for supper. It was chicken drumsticks, flavoured rice, eggrolls...very tasty. Joanne returned from hospital...verdict: a broken kneecap! She is so dissapointed in not being able to ride anymore.
We are camping at a United Church. Great hot showers up the street at a beautiful complex which houses the Y. My odometer turned 6,660 km upon arrival here!
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