Thursday September 17, 2015

Today was one of those days that started wet and cold and although the weather improved and mood didn’t improve much as the day wore on.

The tent was wet with dew on the outside and moisture on the inside, we actually had a puddle of water in a couple of the corners of the tent. We woke up cold and damp. The sun came up quickly and we waited for a while hoping that the tent would dry out. The only good thing was there are no mosquitos.

We eventually packed the tent – wet and left at 9:15 a.m

Maybe it was the start that put us in the mood for the day, but neither of us had a good ride today. Ralf admitted that his back was hurting and he rode most of the day in pain. This is unusual for him, usually when he starts cycling his back pain goes away – not today.

I just was not into the ride. The scenery was nice, but it was hilly and we had headwinds – you all know by now how much I love headwinds. To show how bad Ralf was feeling I heard him complain “headwinds and hills come on”. Neither of us could get into a good rhythm.

We stopped in Perth-Andover for a snack and got chatting to the Ex-Mayor who told us about the flood of 2012.  He owned this food place which he had to rebuild after the flood.  the original café was on the floodplain and was under three feet of water after the flood.

At Perth-Andover we had to cross the river and carry along the other side.

There are a lot of covered bridges in this area.  This bridge had two fires, only one of the ends were rebuilt.

For some unknown reason we overshot the campsite by about 15 kms! And arrived in Florenceville-Bristol the hometown of the head offices of McCain’s frozen foods. This is the multi-billion dollar frozen foods empire created by two brothers in 1957.

Ralf checked on garmin for a motel, the first one was close so we headed to the second, which was a little expensive for our budget. However, they were very nice and allowed us to erect our damp tent to let it dry out.

We had nice meal in the restaurant which was a very reasonable price and breakfast is included tomorrow.