Friday September 18, 2015

A better day today, it was a very hilly ride to Fredericton. Aynsley said New Brunswick was a little hilly.

The morning started of with the mist coming of the river, but the sun soon burnt it off and it was a lovely sunny day.

We stopped in Hartland – 20kms from Florence Bristol to check on the rail trail. The Tourist Information told us that the “rail trail” we thought we would follow was actually a 4-wheeler trail, not really suitable for loaded touring bikes. We followed a very rural route with no services along the road.

Hartland is a very pretty Town with the longest covered bridge in the world.

The first 68 kms were up hill. We met a guy who told us there was one small hill and then down hill all the way to Fredericton. For once he was right, although the hill wasn’t exactly small, 7% to 9% grade.

The route was a very quiet rural road. There were no services along this route except for one very small convenience store and post office. We stopped and made banana and peanut butter sandwiches for lunch, then when we got to the convenience store we bought some more water.

We arrived in Fredericton at about 4:00 and stopped at McDonalds to get something more to eat and call Aynsley’s friends who we are staying with tonight.

Kayla and Steve are a really nice couple.  They have a lovely baby girl, who is so sweet.  She is quite chatty and is running around all over the place.

When they knew we needed to get our bikes fixed they offered us an extra night, how nice is that.  Ralf and I are both having problems with our brakes, I think they may need replacing.

Kayla and Steve are going to a hockey match tonight and asked us if we wanted to go with them. We are both a little tired, an early night for both of us.