Today was to be a 97 mile day however the school in Port
Huron pulled the plug on Greg a couple of days ago. This put Greg in to scramble mode as there
isn’t a lot of options in this part of the world and especially during peak
tourist season. However he came through
and landed us in a beautiful camp ground just 6 miles out of Port Huron. The school in Port Huron was probably the
worst place on the tour so I am not sad to see it go. In addition the church ladies who did the
supper also pulled out which is great as it was the worst meal on the
tour. We are being shuttled into Port
Huron to a restaurant.
The ride was nice in that it was mostly along very quiet
country roads which had very nice pavement.
We headed straight south to Lake Eire and then headed east along the
lake shore drive. However as there was a huge fog bank just off shore there
wasn’t much to see on the right side.
Picnic was in the town of Port Burwell, which has one of the
first lighthouses on Lake Eire, It was built in 1840 and is now a tourist info
center. The quaint little town has a maritime museum which looked pretty good
but I didn’t go in. They have also
pulled up the Canadian submarine Ojibwa up on the shore and turned it in to a
tourist thing. The only option to see the submarine was a $25 tour which lasted
90 minutes. As I didn’t have 90 minutes
I rolled out of picnic.
After picnic I missed a turn in the little town of Port
Rowan and went of route. Other riders
missed the turn so I suspect that a car had parked on one of the arrows. In an effort to conserve paint the arrows are
getting smaller and smaller, and few and further apart. Dan is routing for the next few days so there
will be lots of arrows, A few miles down
the road I realized I was of course and went into a store and got directions.
Just a few miles out of camp there was an ice cream shop so
I stopped. I had a double scoop of the
wild cherry and it was great.
On the trivia side we crossed the 1000 miles to go about 4
miles out of West Lorne. This leaves us
with 913 miles to go. Getting close!
|Terry
Port Dover, not Port Huron!
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