Terra Cotta - Port Perry
Wow! We rode a lot today. Set out around 9am. Great trail towards Palgrave, but because it was so good we almost missed our turn off. Met several friendly cyclists along the way: 1) before we got on the trail; 2) in Kettleby - she offered us water and cookies. Kettleby is well worth a visit with very cute buildings with historical name boards on almost every house. E.g. Here lived John Whitby, Well Digger 1842.
Had a great glass of lemonade from some entrepeneurial kids alongside the road in Lloydtown - 25cents each. It got quite hot around noon but clouds and a light breeze cooled things off later. Our lunch spot was a weed and insect infested rock cropping on the outskirts of Snowball (a place we had to stop in memory of S's cat - RIP). We didn't see the "inskirts" (were there any?) but the donut shop looked like the place to be.
From Snowball to Ballantrae went very quickly: easy hills, good roads, very cool scenery at Musselman Lake. Some great skies and foreign landscapes. We felt surprisingly fit. S had a swollen knee that went away with an extra-strength Advil (pain killer).According to Sigmund we rode 116km in roughly 6 hrs (but made a lot of stops to find a campsite that made our day much longer). Now staying at the San Man Motel (P: "it looks just like the ones in the movies"), boycotting Goreski's Campsite because it was not well advertised and another 13km there may well have killed us. Plus we get to watch the olympics.
Memorable moment: crazy lady running onto the path in front of our bikes to find out where we got our red panniers.
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