Monday, July 29, 2013

A new record

Three ice cream cones in one day!  I find I get about twenty miles to a cone.  In the interest of setting my  record, I did limit myself to kiddie sized cones.  The final one of the day, however, seemed to be designed for a pretty big kid.  The favors were triple chocolate, maple walnut, and caramel praline.  Fine ice cream in Canada.
Fine pretty much everything on our ride through southern Ontario.  The last two days have been some of the finest riding I think I have done, and tomorrow promises more of the same.  We get beautiful views of Lake Erie at regular intervals, see a variety of crops, ride through pretty and interesting small towns, and as icing on the cake, we have a tailwind.
We rode 67 miles today, ending in Port Dover, another beach destination along the lake.  We have seen lots of water toys for sale, but with cool temperature and some wind, not many people are in the water.  Great weather for biking, so no complaints from us.
Margaret, Ziva, Dick, Susan, Mark, and Mike in the back, enjoying our ice cream.  Ziva and Susan told me about this trip; Dick, 76 years old, is our senior member, Mark comes over from 
Scotland for these rides, and Mike is the cross-country rider we first met in Michigan, who seems glad for some company for a while.


Flowering leaf tobacco, used for cigars, I am told.

A cherry orchard along the road.  We saw a machine shaking the cherries out of the trees.


Windy shore line.
One of the oldest light houses on the Great Lakes.




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