{"id":36,"date":"2008-06-21T15:36:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T19:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/?p=36"},"modified":"2008-10-29T23:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T03:29:00","slug":"june-21-savanne-river-to-thunder-bay-119km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"June 21: Savanne River to Thunder Bay (~119km)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The extra mess of duct tape applied to the rear tire almost certainly made for a smoother and more reliable ride, but it was still a little bumpy as it didn’t take long for the tape’s adhesive to slip enough to get some of the bulge back in the tire).<\/p>\n

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On top of the ongoing transitions between weather too wet not to wear raingear and too hot and humid (and not raining) to keep wearing it (I probably spent a significant fraction of my riding time changing into and out of raingear), there were some other notable transitions to the day.<\/p>\n

The first of these was the transition to the Eastern Time Zone (duly marked with a monstrous sign that indicates Ontario’s pride at also being the province in which the concept of standard time was invented).<\/p>\n

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and hey, since there’s already a roadside pavillion, why not provide a little more historical information:<\/p>\n

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Another notable transition a short while later is what I’ll call the other continental divide (pictures taken on both sides):<\/p>\n

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Since I’d picked up a piece of gravel from the side of the road back at the Pacific-Arctic watershed boundary (i.e. the well-known Continental Divide), I felt it only appropriate to grab another piece of gravel (this one being red granite, so it’d be easier to tell the two apart, even in a coloured glass bottle full of water), and add it to the bottle half-full of Pacific water, and holding the other piece of gravel (though now I regret that I didn’t take some sort of massive detour north to grab some Arctic Ocean water for the bottle).<\/p>\n

Finally, There was the transition to the Great Lakes area, as I approached Thunder Bay (on the shore of Lake Superior). I got one last shot of the pre-Great-Lakes scenery<\/p>\n

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Before continuing on and getting a first peek at the Sleeping Giant (out in the lake, just off Thunder Bay) over a hill<\/p>\n

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and another clearer shot of it, but with Thunder Bay traffic and signals and the like mucking up the foreground<\/p>\n

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I then called up the colleague whose hospitality I enjoyed for 2 nights and the rest day between, and he offered to pick me up at the marina further down the road, rather than trouble me with directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bikely map The extra mess of duct tape applied to the rear tire almost certainly made for a smoother and more reliable ride, but it was still a little bumpy as it didn’t take long for the tape’s adhesive to slip enough to get some of the bulge back in the tire).<\/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-36","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\/36","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=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}