Sunday August 30, 2015

As we left Kingston today we noticed that there were signs for a road race. We saw more police cars today than we have since we entered Ontario! We came to an intersection where a police car was waiting to direct traffic. He warned us to get off the road if we saw the bike riders coming up the street. We were watching for them coming, they had a lead vehicle and after the main group of about 50 riders passed us we carried on our way.

As the race group passed us, we rang our bells and shouted Allez Allez, a few of them smiled and I overheard one fella say “they were the two we saw yesterday”.

We stopped at a Tim’s for a snack, and were chatting to a couple from Florida. A telling statement from them – they had seen us cycling and said “it is so nice to see fit people, we haven’t seen many in Ontario” We agreed with them, there are an awful lot of overweight people in Ontario.

It was a nice ride today, the weather was good and the shoulder was paved most of the way into Kingston. I had found a Henry\’s Camera Store on-line last night and we headed for the mall. Ralf’s camera has gone to the repair shop and hopefully it can be fixed. The thing would not turn on, so the store could not do a diagnostics on the camera.

While Ralf was inside the store I was chatting to people outside. There is always a lot of interest in our bikes and gear.

Arrived at warmshowers host and played with the kids in the garden, I can still do cart-wheels, head-stands and forward and backward rolls. The kids were great fun, although as is typical one always ends up taking something the other wants and tears follow.

When we contacted Dan he had told us that the basement was being painted and we could sleep in the living room. We were getting our sleeping mats out when he suggested that maybe it would be better if we slept in the basement, we would probably get a better sleep and not be disturbed by the children waking up at 6:00! Good call Dan.