I was going to ride an epic ride report but laziness is getting to me so this is going to be mainly photos.
The other half (Kenzie on here) and I recently went on a trip out to the East Coast for 2 weeks - July 9-24. We would leave after work Friday the 8th to Kingston so we have a shorter ride the next day, do the province/state hopping thing, arrive at mother-in-law's place in eastern Quebec Tuesday of the second week, slab it back to Kingston, then a short trip home Sunday the 24th.
Our route would be approx Toronto, ON > Kingston, ON > Sherbrooke, QC > Bangor, ME > St John, NB > Halifax, NS > Charlottetown, PEI then back through New Brunswick to Quebec.
We planned 2 Bed & Breakfasts (St John, NB and Charlottetown, PEI), camping the rest of the way, and of course, stay at a house rest of the second week.
I took over 500 photos which I've narrowed down to about 300 but I'll just post snippets (aka still a bumload of photos)...
Day ZERO: Friday night. We're supposed to leave work at 5, get home by 5:30, pack, leave 7ish and get to Kingston by 10ish. I'm a control-freak workaholic and made us stay until close to 9 so we ended up arriving in Kingston close to 1AM. This after a week of 12 hour days made for a very grumpy me in the last half hour of our ride. Our Cardo-enabled conversations were not happy ones.
Two weeks of stuff to keep me from looking like a cave woman. We also brought two bottles of bugspray. Samples and travel sized toiletries are a godsend. I have a whole stockpile of them from promo girls on the street and gift-with-purchase specials. Why the need for 2 eyelash curlers, 3 lipglosses, 2 mascaras and a bunch of nice smelling things? Don't ask me.
DAY 1
Stopped just after the Quebec border to rest the behinds, get hydrated, and obtain some information from the tourism office. The reps there are very helpful but give you way too many brochures and booklets. Great for car/RV trips...not so great for bike camping trips. Still, pack rat that I am, I insisted we lug them along.
Stopped to take a photo of the scenery in Ste.-Catherine-de-Hatley, Quebec before heading to our campsite
Hey, we're here!!! Finally arrived at our campsite in Waterville, Quebec
Tent is pitched and ready to go. Looks all lonely in a sea of RVs and trailer-cottages.
Cool bridge entrance to the campsite
Go buy this thing! Kenzie's sister told him to buy this during a camping shopping spree last year and I was all like, that's a waste of money, blah blah blah. Totally eating crow now. We use it everytime we camp. I'm also quite talented with the rope, apparently.
Yes, we were born in the age of technology and are slaves to it. Had to charge the Cardos, the cell phone (so we have internet to look up places, phone numbers, etc.), GPS, netbook, etc.
Dinner of champions. Pretty much our diet for the next two weeks. Pants were feeling mighty tight on the ride home two weeks later.
More bridge! And water! And cooling off from the summer weather!
And that my friends, is the end of the 1st full day of the trip. About a gazillion more posts to come.
The other half (Kenzie on here) and I recently went on a trip out to the East Coast for 2 weeks - July 9-24. We would leave after work Friday the 8th to Kingston so we have a shorter ride the next day, do the province/state hopping thing, arrive at mother-in-law's place in eastern Quebec Tuesday of the second week, slab it back to Kingston, then a short trip home Sunday the 24th.
Our route would be approx Toronto, ON > Kingston, ON > Sherbrooke, QC > Bangor, ME > St John, NB > Halifax, NS > Charlottetown, PEI then back through New Brunswick to Quebec.
We planned 2 Bed & Breakfasts (St John, NB and Charlottetown, PEI), camping the rest of the way, and of course, stay at a house rest of the second week.
I took over 500 photos which I've narrowed down to about 300 but I'll just post snippets (aka still a bumload of photos)...
Day ZERO: Friday night. We're supposed to leave work at 5, get home by 5:30, pack, leave 7ish and get to Kingston by 10ish. I'm a control-freak workaholic and made us stay until close to 9 so we ended up arriving in Kingston close to 1AM. This after a week of 12 hour days made for a very grumpy me in the last half hour of our ride. Our Cardo-enabled conversations were not happy ones.
Two weeks of stuff to keep me from looking like a cave woman. We also brought two bottles of bugspray. Samples and travel sized toiletries are a godsend. I have a whole stockpile of them from promo girls on the street and gift-with-purchase specials. Why the need for 2 eyelash curlers, 3 lipglosses, 2 mascaras and a bunch of nice smelling things? Don't ask me.
DAY 1
Stopped just after the Quebec border to rest the behinds, get hydrated, and obtain some information from the tourism office. The reps there are very helpful but give you way too many brochures and booklets. Great for car/RV trips...not so great for bike camping trips. Still, pack rat that I am, I insisted we lug them along.
Stopped to take a photo of the scenery in Ste.-Catherine-de-Hatley, Quebec before heading to our campsite
Hey, we're here!!! Finally arrived at our campsite in Waterville, Quebec
Tent is pitched and ready to go. Looks all lonely in a sea of RVs and trailer-cottages.
Cool bridge entrance to the campsite
Go buy this thing! Kenzie's sister told him to buy this during a camping shopping spree last year and I was all like, that's a waste of money, blah blah blah. Totally eating crow now. We use it everytime we camp. I'm also quite talented with the rope, apparently.
Yes, we were born in the age of technology and are slaves to it. Had to charge the Cardos, the cell phone (so we have internet to look up places, phone numbers, etc.), GPS, netbook, etc.
Dinner of champions. Pretty much our diet for the next two weeks. Pants were feeling mighty tight on the ride home two weeks later.
More bridge! And water! And cooling off from the summer weather!
And that my friends, is the end of the 1st full day of the trip. About a gazillion more posts to come.
