The Adventures of David and Shirley on a Wing and a Spyder
Shirley and I traveled from Cornwall, PEI to Kentville, Nova Scotia today. It was a short trip to the toll booth on the Confederation Bridge, we payed our toll and continued thru New Brunswick to the Nova Scotia border stopping at the welcome center. We continued our trip to Kentville for the Bluenose Rally taking the shoreline route along the Bay of Fundy.
317 Miles
Today we left camp and traveled to Fort Amherst, after Fort Amherst we went into Charlottetown. Charlottetown and the surrounding area has a great history with the shipbuilding, the Acadians and their expulsion by the British, and their confederation with Canada. Shirley and I took a horse drawn cart ride through Charlottetown, and then walked through the shops in the old section of town. 45 Miles
We left Hart Island resort headed for Prince Edward Island (PEI) early this morning. We stopped in Salisbury, NB for breakfast and to use the internet to catch up on the blog. We stopped at Jourimain to look at the confederation bridge and walk through the museum. I learned about the Ice boats which used to be the only access to PEI in the winter prior to the bridge being built. At the campsite in Cornwall we talked with a couple of bikers that came in from Ontario after talking with them i gave them 1 of our cards and it being a small world, their names are John and Cammie Ridley. 242 Miles
We woke up this morning in a downpour, we delayed getting up and waited for the rain to subside. We were able to fold up the trailer wet but not with it raining. Today we traveled highway 2 to through Edmundston, Grand Falls, and Hartland. We stopped at the Grand Falls information center and overlook and had a good talk with the staff. We spent the night at Hart Island in Fredricton. 276 Miles
We left St Philippe de Laprairie and headed east on highway 112 through Granby and stopped in Valcourt so that Shirley could say that she had been at the BRP factory and then continued on highway 116 into Quebec to highway 132 along the south side of the St Lawrence river. We found a campground overlooking the river and watched the sunset from the tent trailer. 345 Miles
After taking a down day due to thunder storms we left Pickering, On and headed to St Philippe de Laprairie, QC just southeast of Montreal. We traveled highway 2 along Lake Ontario stopping in Prescott, Gananoque, and Cornwall. We took the tunnel under the St Lawrence river and meandered through neighborhoods into St Philippe de Laprairie.
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Shirley and I took a tour bus from Toronto to Niagara falls stopping at a winery and at Niagara by the Lake on the way. Scott, the tour guide gave us a lot of history on the ride over, and we went out on the Hornblower when we got to Niagara Falls. We had a good time with only a few rain showers. 0 Miles
Today we explored Pickering and Scarborough. Then we took care of some housekeeping issues and relaxed for the afternoon. 4 Miles
We traveled south out of Sudbury today traveling through French River, Parry Sound, Severn, Barrie, and Scarborough. The day started out nice about halfway to Toronto we had to stop and put on rain gear for rain the next half hour and then it was nice into Barrie where we had lunch. We left our rain gear on when we left Barrie which was a good thing for us we had several down pours between Barrie and Scarborough. The rain stopped and held off long enough for us to get camp setup. 265 Miles
Today we traveled from St. Ignace, MI across the border into Canada ending our days travel in Sudbury, ON. We made a stop in Bruce Mines, Iron Bridge and Espanola. We met two motorcyclists today one was headed East from Alaska, and the other was headed west from Iowa.
285 Miles
Shirley and I boarded the ferry this morning for Mackinac Island. The ferry took us under the Mackinac bridge on the way to the island. We took the carriage ride and learned a lot of history about the island. We went past the Post Office, Grand Hotel, Surrey Hill Museum, Grand Stable, Arch Rock, and Fort Mackinac. It started out overcast and cold, and warmed up into the mid 70’s and sunny by afternoon. 0 Miles
We woke up this morning to fog, got everything packed, had breakfast and filled the motorcycles with fuel. We left about 08:30 and traveled about 40 miles in the fog then the fog broke and it was a gorgeous ride along the northern shore of Lake Superior and through the Lake Superior Provincial Park. We stopped and took some pictures of Agawa bay and crossed the US border at Sault Ste. Marie and made camp in St. Ignace. After camp was setup we went into St. Ignace to see the sights. 223 Miles
We left Thunder Bay this morning and headed to Wawa. The fog had settled in overnight and we had fog until we arrived in White River. There was extensive road construction on this section so it took a bit longer to get into Wawa. 299 Miles
Due to the thunder and lightning this morning we decided to stay in camp an extra day, relax, and do laundry. We met a gentleman riding a Goldwing 1500 that stopped to camp, he is from Salem, OR heading west.
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Today we had to take Shirley’s Can-Am Spyder into the shop to get the rear tire replaced and rotate the front tires. The shop finished the repairs and we are ready to travel again tomorrow. While her bike was in the shop we did some shopping, visited the Terry Fox memorial in Thunder Bay and went down to the marina. 59 Miles
