I was able to actually get out the door and on the road at 9:36. The weather was a bit threatening, but the weather liar promised clearing skies as I went. LET’S GO!
I had an uneventful trip to Port Huron and crossed the Blue Water Bridge. That was my first time across a BIG bridge on the bike- usually I take the ferry at Marine City. I made a wrong turn at turned onto the bridge forgetting I wanted to stop for a bottle of duty free booze. Oh well. No big deal crossing the bridge and I sailed thru customs with no waiting.
Passing Toronto in the early afternoon on a Sunday is always a good thing. Almost no traffic. A few hours later I passed Ivy Lea, a favorite campground of mine, directly on the St Lawrence River. It was about 5:00, WAY too early to stop. Sometime that evening I passed Cornwall, ON. That’s are far east as I’ve previously been in Canada before. The next 3500 miles or so are all new !!
I came into Montreal at sundown, with Michael Stipe on the MP3, the sun reflecting everywhere. Not a bad entrance J There was a traffic wreck, stopping traffic on the E-way. I got off the big road and poked thru town, generally heading east. Pretty place. I want to come back.
I started looking for a place to stay about 9pm. I rode around a efw small towns looking for a motel (the GPS lies!!). The GPS led me to an EconoLodge which has changed its business model in the hard economy. It’s pretty clearly the local whore house. I kept looking.
I found a Days Inn about 10:30 and called it a day. More $$ than I’d like to spend, but it’s a room, a shower, and a “continental breakfast” which I am having now.
Time to make some ferry reservations to get to Newfoundland!
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