Posted by Peter:
A lazy start, sleeping until 7AM, a gourmet breakfast, nice conversation with other guests, good chat with Joan, the innkeeper and internationally known artist. A late start because we only had 15 miles to do and our room wouldn't be ready too early.
It was an easy ride and we were surprised when the International Bridge came into view as we cycled through downtown Calais. There was a block long line of cars and trucks waiting to get into Canada, but we had been advised that we could bypass them and go to the front with pedestrians. We did and I had to take our pepper sprays inside where it was decided that they were "legal" in Canada because they were for dogs only. I was cautioned to not use them on people. We then had a mile ride to get to our motel. The line of cars waiting to go into the U.S. was almost that long. Hopefully, it won't be as bad tomorrow morning! The motel is OK, reasonably clean and it has a/c. We're waiting for Mar to arrive to go have lunch. Just chilling. It's all somewhat anti-climactic. I think it hasn't sunk in that this part of our journey is over. We've sucessfully cycled 2500 miles from Key West to St. Stephen. I can't say we did it on our own, although in a sense we did, but in reality we did it with the help of so many good people that we've met on the way and we couldn't have done it without you. Thank you all.
later.
Congratulations!! I've checked in about 10 times today waiting to read those words... "we made it".... There's a commercial where a man tells everyone he sees that he just lowered his cholesterol...I remind myself of that commericial because everyone I see at work I say "my cousin and her husband made it to Canada!!"
Posted by: Laura Lee | Friday, July 29, 2005 at 02:22 PM