This morning we got prepared to leave and went for a continental breakfast at 7 am. It wasn't as sustaining as many others but it was sufficient to get us on the road. We rode out on Lakeshore Drive and then took Hy 11 south access Hy 94 north. Unfortunately there was no road access from 11 to 94, and the ROMP told us that we weren't supposed to be on 11. So to get off 11 and onto 94 we took our bikes and panniers through the shrubs and up an embankment to the overpass. That's why one of today's pictures feature the underside of an overpass. The other picture shows Hy 17 through the dark green forest at one of the few times when it was silent. I.e. too silent to be real. In reality what we experience is a lot of tire noise.
When we bicycled east from No Bay in 2011 this section of road was among the worst. This time it was beautiful and among the best. Our distance covered today was about 170 km arriving in Deep River around 6 pm. We had a very satisfying full breakfast in Mattawa. While we were in the restaurant a fellow came to tell us that he had seen us before when we were going through Thunder Bay. Interestingly he will be doing the annual Rideau Lakes ride in which they go from Ottawa to Kingston, stay at Queens and return to Ottawa. Their table saw us again east of Mattawa and gave many toots on their car horns.
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