Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Along the St. Lawrence heading south west from Québec city we rode along a series of designated bike paths and linked up about 25Kms later with the 138, which took us right to our very nice Sainte-Anne-de-la-Perade accommodation, Auberge du Manoir Dauth. Public sculpture and installations (for example, 7 life-size cutouts of apocalyptic looking horses, a la Jean Lurcat) were periodically beside the bike/pedestrian paths. The grassy areas alongside were wavy with burms, which must be nice to sit on for picnics. Once we had left the bike paths, we wove through a neighborhood and down a very steep hill and staircase with gutters for wheeling the bikes. It was a windy day in our face, so we didn't feel the heat, unless we were stopped for a break or photo. One of our morning breaks was for B to fix Y's gears, as her chain fell off again this morning (2x) and it was also skipping a lot - happily the changes B made to the rear derailer has revived the harmony of Y's buttery peddling to the way is was before we left home - very nice! There was enough wind to whip up white caps on the St. Lawrence (& Y reported to B that she also saw white caps on the water in the roadside ditches!). It is supposed to be quite windy in the next few days as we head to Montebello.

We have also managed to update our Bike Gear Page for those interested.









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