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Day 4 (Janis) Joplin for my birthday
A long day 7.30am to 5pm for 462km. Thankfully the weather has cooled to be Tshirt comfortable instead of T shirt sweaty. A lot of bike riders are wearing “beach” shirt
Day 3 show me the way to St Louis
A hot day…even on the bikes. We pulled out of Springfield around 8am, a routine we are now used to and thundered off on a contorted series of over passes, wobbling our
Day 2 Picking up the HARDLY Davidson i.e. BMW
Just outside Chicago there is a place that looks like Harley Heaven. About an acre of bikes and riding apparel. I resisted the urge to buy anything with HD on it. Contracts for hir
Toronto Day 2
24th September 2014 Toronto is a busy city with plenty happening, especially lots of road and rail construction as well as condominiums going up everywhere. There are currently 116
Toronto
23rd September 2014 After checking out the Art Deco inspired Lord Elgin Hotel we hit the road for an all day but very easy drive to Toronto. A few stops along the way proved that
Ottawa
22nd September 2014 Easy drive (2 hours) to Ottawa today, the capital of Canada with about 800,000 people living there. It is on the St Lawrence River. The hotel, Lord Elgin i
Montreal
21st September 2014 It was only a couple of hours by road from Quebec to Montreal. Montreal is on an island and was host to the 1976 Olympic Games. Much of that infrastructur
Quebec
Saturday 20th September. A spectacular blood red sunrise managed to peek through a tiny opening on the horizon on what turned out to be a heavily overcast morning that eventually t
Boston to Quebec
Friday 19th September We had an early start as we had some distance to travel which included a border crossing into Canada. We started to experience the magnificent country side