Day 41 – Hee Haw

July 28, 2018

Day 41 – London to Brantford, Ontario, CA – 69 miles, 970 feet vertical (flat, flat, flat).  

Cumulative totals to date:  3,047 miles traveled, with 100,890 feet of vertical climb.  How about them apples?

Our routine for the past few days has been: wake up in the morning, have breakfast, go for a bike ride.  Wake up in the morning, have breakfast, go for a bike ride.  

These last several days have been just so wonderful and relaxing.  With relatively low mileage, flat farmland, sunny skies and mild temps, we finally have the opportunity to relax and just enjoy ourselves.  Today was another one of those days.  For those concerned that we haven’t done a century ride in a while, I should point out that today qualified as a little over a metric century (that’s 100 kilometers).  Still, it was a light day, especially compared to what we’ve already covered.  

And so, we had time today to go easy, take in the sights, chat with the locals, stop at a fruit stand to buy fresh fruit, corn and pies and spend some quality time crawling around in a giant field of straw bales.  Climbing up onto those beasts is not as easy as it looks and we had some, er, … embarrassing moments that will forever stay in the “members only” section.  Hey, you try it in cycling shoes!

The other incentive to loll around is that our hotel rooms are often not ready if we get to our destination too early.  So why rush?  I was proof of this (again) today, so I just changed into a bathing suit and headed for the hot tub.  Great and efficient way to spend the time, rather than standing there bugging the hotel clerk.  

As I noted above, the milestone for today is that we passed the 3,000 mile mark and for tomorrow, we finish our little shortcut through Canada, head back into the USA and reach our fifth and final rest day in Niagara Falls.  Honestly, none of us can believe it.  Honestly. 

Please enjoy our straw bales photos of the day and thank you so much for following along at Where’s Jeff at jeffblye.com. Please keep those cards and letters coming.  Really appreciated!  

… Jeff