our ferry wasn't until 10.30 pm so everyone hung around camp and cleaned their luggage. Tires thrown out, chairs thrown out and all other unwanted rubbish gathered over weeks being discarded.
We had Burritos for lunch and everyone started to leave for today's 40 km ride to North Sydney around 2 pm. I took a ride with Howard's wife to North Sydney and loaded my bike on top of the trailer. Once in town, i walked around town visited their waterfront, a local heritage museum, tim horton's and then got back to the ferry terminal where others had arrived.
We had a pasta salad for dinner and we boarded the ferry at 8.30 pm. Since we hadn't made any bookings on this ferry we did not get any cabins or bunk beds and ended up sleeping on the comfy chairs. We reached our destination early morning and I had waffles for breakfast and packed 2 extra muffins for breakfast on the road. Once out of the ferry i wanted to take a shower in the terminal but as i was leaving we got the news that the bus that is supposed to take us to St Johns has arrived and we started boarding. There were plenty of seats for everyone to have 2, so everyone got dispersed so that they can stretch and possibly sleep on 2 seats. I had thought of writing up other blog posts on the bus, but ended up having multiple naps. The terrain in New Foundland was surprisingly rocky and had some nice gradual climbs with vistas similar to the rockies.
We reached St Johns and checked in to Battery Hotel at around 7 pm. Everyone was tired and as we waited for the cube van and the trailer I (and others) took showers and freshened up. Initially we thought about going out for dinner but we didn't have our luggage yet so had to wait around and by that time it was already 9.30 and the pizza had arrived. Everyone looked tired but relaxed and they sat around the tables chatting, laughing and enjoying the last few hours together. This was the first time it hit me that the group will be disassembling in less than 24 hours.
I retired to bed around 10.20 pm as we had planned a ride up the signal hill tomorrow morning just a good ceremonial climb.
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| Going up and down Kelly's Mountain |
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| Van loaded up with bikes to NF |
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| The van got a lot of attention while in the lineup to get on ferry |
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| Rockier than i expected |
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