A Weird Day in Ontario

Last night in conversations with the gentleman who ran our RV Camp, we learned that the conditions we rode in yesterday would be continued for five more days across the rest of Ontario. The "conditions" I speak of are lots of traffic, including huge trucks, and no shoulders for bikers to ride on. So last night we put our heads together to determine what we should do. None of us wanted to continue to ride on Canada Highway 17 East. We needed an alternative route to get us across Ontario and Quebec.

So today, Joe and I rode about 25 miles into Sudbury where Cindy and Kathy found a nice hotel with fast WiFi service so we could re-map our ride. It is now about 4:30 p.m. and we have just finished. We've had to add a day and we have some very long riding days over the next week, but if we are able to sustain it, we will finish on Saturday, July 31 rather than Friday the 30th in Portland, Maine.

Flexibility seems to be the word of the day for us. We thought about loading up the bikes in the RV and just driving down the road on East 17...but somehow that seemed to not honor this Ride Against Hunger that promised to RIDE across the continent, not ride in a motor home.

So tonight we will find a nice place to have dinner and ride South on 69 tomorrow rather than East on 17. Hang with us folks. We will do our very best to get us there safe and sound. We're working hard at this...hope you are donating generously to your favorite food banks. God knows that those who come to our food banks run into a few rough roads now and then!