Valleyfield to Farnam- 130 km. We packed up, and dropped in at the Subway store downtown for breakfast. After that we got off Grand Isle and started the real Quebec bicycling - on dedicated bike paths. The first section was along the Beauharnois Canal- perfect bicycling. After that we would ride a bit then stop to check the maps as moving from one section of bike path to the next proved a bit challenging. The weather conditions were similar to yesterday's with lots of westerly wind. It wasn't as helpful as yesterday because we had change directions so often; occasionally we even rode into a headwind. Eventually we rolled into St Jean Sur Richelieu and stopped to buy new biking gloves for Susie. This bike shop was right on the Trans-Canada trail so we just continued along it to Farnam. About 15 km from Farnam, the fun began. Susie's rear tire blew so I changed inner tubes and we saw that the tire appeared to hold albeit with a small bulge where the weakness was. After putting 70 psi into it Susie rode carefully along the hard gravel piste hoping that it would hold for the 12 km into Farnam. About 3 km out the replacement tube gave out so we walked to the motel. It is Le Pigeonner, which is where we stayed 8 years ago; that makes 2 out of 3 same motels. Fortunately there is a bike shop in Farnam and the website said that it was open until 21h00. So we had showers then walked to the bike shop with the rear wheel in hand. The guy at the shop was great. He disappeared into the back room for what seemed to be a long time. I was concerned that he might come back apologizing that they didn't have the right size- WRONG he came back with a selection of 5 different types. I selected a slick with Kevlar which is supposed to be puncture resistant. For the princely sum of $5 they installed it sent away two happy customers.
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