{"id":33,"date":"2008-06-18T00:06:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T04:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/?p=33"},"modified":"2008-10-29T23:27:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T03:27:16","slug":"june-18-kenora-to-minnitaki-119km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"June 18: Kenora to Minnitaki (~119km)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I got a late start today, having not only gone to the post office to pick up my mail (and fill out\/write up and send off some other mail) but also dipped into the public library to use the internet for nearly an hour. By the time I was properly on the road it was close to 1:15pm, and the sun and heat were sufficiently intense that I considered taking siesta breaks for the next few days around the solstice.<\/p>\n

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The other discomfort of the day is that I’d finally gotten my body almost into proper riding form (i.e. sore and stiff-feeling, in spite of stretching) but had take a long enough rest period to heal my ankle that I’d had a chance to remember what it feels like for my body not to be stiff and sore. I managed to tone down the feeling of near sun\/heatstroke (in spite of frequent application of food, water, and sunscreen) a bit with my morning (ummm.. right) apple. Later in the day, I also had a salad for lunch, which really seemed to help. I may simply have been running a little low on nutrients from greens.<\/p>\n

I got a few more gratuitous shots of trees growing on rock, and bodies of water, figuring that I was pretty gratuitous with the mountains, flat terrain, grain elevators, and other pieces of less familiar geography that I shouldn’t neglect Ontario just because it’s home (though perhaps I should show it a little more neglect since crossing it takes a considerable amount of time longer than any other province — except for BC, which Ontario takes only about half a week to a week longer to cross).<\/p>\n

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I also passed by a pair of plaques commemorating the “Last Spike”<\/p>\n

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as well as a mess of tires, strung together to be laid over blasting operations (where the road is being widened ot twinned) to contain the debris that would otherwise fly everywhere.<\/p>\n

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Finally, at around km 100, I was thinking about stopping, and passed by a nearly ideal campsite at km 102 (good tree branches to hang food, nice clear, level ground in the shade, well set back from the road) but decided that it was a bit close to the railway and that I’d puch on a little longer to try and find a better campsite (being overly optimistic about the roadside camping prospects in this province).<\/p>\n

As the title of this post indicates, I had no such luck for another 17km, and even then, the ground wasn’t as flat, clear, shaded, dry, or set back from the road, there were more bugs, and I had to hang my food off a road sign about 100m down the road for want of a decent tree branch. It was after 9pm though, and I really needed to pack it in for the night, so…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bikely map I got a late start today, having not only gone to the post office to pick up my mail (and fill out\/write up and send off some other mail) but also dipped into the public library to use the internet for nearly an hour. By the time I was properly on the road […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on","category-ridingdays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}