Thursday, August 14, 2008

Day 51 — Saturday, August 9

Québec City to St-Denis
We got up at a reasonable time and went back to the Tim Horton’s we had left off at a couple nights ago. The forecast for today was “100% chance of rain”, yet it looked pretty nice out.

Not long into the ride, the weather was nearly perfect. A slight headwind for the riders, apparently, but the sun was shining as we made our way north-east, riding with the St. Lawrence River to our immediate left.

Kelly and Vanessa kept riding until it got dark. We had to take advantage of this nice weather, which has been so rare over the last week or so. We racked the bikes at a small town called St-Denis and then drove back about 10 km to a campsite at another town called Riviére-Ouelle.

Riviére-Ouelle is a very French town. English is beginning to become quite uncommon the farther we travel up the St. Lawrence. This campsite had a ton of amenities and it was actually having a “western soirée” the night we were there. Allan went and checked it out and said it was okay.

We stopped at a small town and had an ice cream break (photo above) and then stopped in another town for a snack at a convenience store (bottom photo). Both very French, but fun.

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