Sunday September 20, 2015

We said our farewells to Steve and Sydney (Kayla had left earlier). We had a really nice stay with Steve, Kayla and Sydney, they gave us the time and space to catch up on the blog, do some washing, get the bikes fixed and we still enjoyed some good conversations. Thank you so much for having us stay with you, you will be more than welcome to stay with us, if you ever need a place to stay in Barrie (when we get reestablished).

The weather forecast was for rain all day, but we left Fredericton before it started to rain. We managed to cycle for three and a half hours before it started to rain. I had a migraine but I took pills and it eventually eased off.

A shorter ride today than originally planned. We had planned on getting to Sussex, but the heavens opened, we were cold and wet and we decided to call it a day in Jemseg. There is a small motel and across the highway a restaurant and convenience store.

The route along the St. John River was nice and flat.

The area had a lot of farm stores, at this time of year the pumpkins are out ready for the fall decorations and Halloween.

There were some interesting wood carvings – Homer and a Canadian Astronaut.

There were a lot of nice houses, and the occasional run-down place. I am sure this house would have been a lovely house in its day.

As we were coming towards Jemseg, we noticed another detour sign and road barred ahead. As usual we opted to push on and hope that we could get by. The road was barred by large concrete blocks, we had to remove our panniers to get the bikes through the very small gap.

If we had not been able to get over the bridge (which crossed the river) we would have had to cycle back 5 kms and it would have added another 10 ks to the day. We would have had to join Highway 2 earlier and got very, very wet.

We settled into the motel and cleaned the bikes, then veged out and relaxed.

By 4:30 the rain stopped and the sun came out, we would have been cycling in the rain for over four hours. I am so glad we spotted this nice little place.