Montreal- planned to stay one day, but got sucked into this awesome city for three and a half! A few weeks back we met some local cycle tourists ending their journey, on their way home to a town called Montreal. They told us if we went through to call and stay with them. So we did! We made it from quebec city to montreal in two days, one of them involving another 100 mile day! woohoo! We pulled into town late thursday night and our new friends guided us along the bike paths to their place near downtown. Had pizza waiting. they really know how to host! They showed us the city, the shopping, the festivals and cathedrals, the bike paths and the fireworks, fed us amazing homecooked meals and made sure we stayed hydrated. It wasnt hard to stay longer than planned here! And our old friend Randy Blades, who is living in NY, drove up for a day to play with us. What a champ.
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| The city has a bike rental program where they have these Bixi bike stations/docks all over town, and so you can pick one up one spot, ride it around, and drop it off wherever you end up. Pretty sweet, and even though we had our own rides, we picked some up to play around town with. |
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| found an alley ful of random games, now we can say we played hockey in canada! |
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| randy, picking out the perfect Bixi. |
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| Saturday night rode bikes to the bridge for fireworks and an awesome night ride around the island and across the bridge. Definitely the highlight of the weekend. |
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| Our crew- Randy, mary and brad, and Jackie and Jesse, our hosts/ tour guides. |
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| They called this mac and cheese, i call it gourmet home cookin! |
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| Using a rest stop for what its intended for- resting! |
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| the fuel of the gods- chocolate milk!!! |
Well, we have had lots of fun and our pictures cant really even show it all, but now its time to get down to business and head west! Next stop, Ottawa, and then west west west!!!!
looks awesome guys! where did Keith and his lovely lady run off to? Are you guys split now? let us know we are curious! glad to see you having a blast!
ReplyDeletethat is so cool you met some nice friends to stay with! it must have been good for you guys to get a real bed and good meals and some relaxing time! looks like a cool place to visit! love the bike rentals all over!
ReplyDeleteI just read an article that B's mom sent about chocolate milk beating all other sports drinks in hydrating, providing electrolytes and giving the most bang for the buck. But that's not really what I got out of the post, come on?! For real, Montreal looks so sweet and your adventures even sweeter. Biking 100 freakin' miles? You guys are doing century rides like every day! Crazy. Good luck, guys and I love you to pieces.
ReplyDeletewelp, 3000 miles is an awfully long way... SOOO glad its you and not me! Its great to sit back and watch your adventure without braving the scorching heat on an bicycle! Have fun :)
ReplyDelete~Maaret