We left today at 10ish to go to Bowmanville for the first leg of our cross-Canada tour.
By 1:30 we had made it to Port Perry for some lunch at a chalet type restaurant where we had some decent sandwich and fries. Will forgot to tip the nice lady.
After lunch we set out for Bowmanville, with make shift google map instructions. As a result we ended up on a dirt/sand road and we had to walk the bikes for about 45 mins until we found a rideable road. When we got off of the dirt road we found out we were on the edge of Oshawa. After some Iphoning from Will we got new directions and set out again for Bowmanville. By this time it was about 3:30 (our original goal to get to Bowmanville by).
This may have been the most difficult part of todays trip because of the amount of incredibly large hills that we were not prepared for, so we ended up taking a few unplanned breaks.
Once we made it to the outskirts of Bowmanville the roads started to get flatter and smoother and we got to our destination pretty quickly. We reached Kim and Rons house at about 6 o'clock, only a few hours behind schedule. Dinner was waiting for us and now we're excited to relax, watch the hockey game and have a good nights sleep.
Thank you again to Kim and Ron for the hospitality, as it was much needed at the end of our first day.
Tomorrow we are biking about 110km to Belleville.
Highlight of the day: Seeing a mailbox that had the following painted on the side of it: NO PAPPERS!
