{"id":60,"date":"2008-07-18T16:03:29","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T20:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/?p=60"},"modified":"2008-10-29T23:41:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T03:41:44","slug":"july-18-edmundston-to-peel-161km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rolling.melon.org\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"July 18: Edmundston to Peel (~161km)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Edmundston being a paper milling town, and having spent a rest day in it, I woke up in the morning and noticed that I had a body odour that smelled of paper mill. I decided to shave and shower to wash off the smell, and be able to set out clean-shaven, though this delayed my departure a little. As it happened, I was a little later heading out than expected, but still on my way by around 11am.<\/p>\n

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While back in Ottawa or thereabouts, I’d checked the distance from the general vicinity of Edmundston to Halifax on Google Maps, and figured that it looked like a comfortable enough ride to cover in 6 days. Once in Edmundston, I decided that I’d much rather take local roads than the Trans-Canada, and saw that this added about 100km to the distance to be covered. Nonetheless, I still had it in my head to try and finish the ride in 6 days. On top of that, I had planned to visit a friend stationed at CFB Gagetown while in Fredericton on the weekend, so I was looking at covering a little over 300km in the first 2 days out of Edmundston.<\/p>\n

Having been a little later than planned getting going, I only tossed back my remaining granola bars for breakfast, and failed to look particularly hard for a grocery store in Edmundston (actually, I’d found the supermarket on my rest day, and it was at the top of a substantial hill, so I decided to reprovision at the next town). This didn’t quite work as planned though, as the road, which was a significant city street in Edmundston, bypassed most of the next several towns. Having gotten hungry earlier than hoped for, I managed to drop into a roadside gas bar and depanneur (still being in a heavily Acadian part of New Brunswick; I got to keep practising my French after all!). It was one of those marginally maintained\/organized middle-of-nowhere convenience stores (mostly empty display racks scattered about the floor) so I just managed to score a few chocolate bars and some gatorade that I expected to be able to hold me over to Grand Falls.<\/p>\n

As it happened, I was able to top up my snacks (and even a bit of my meal food) in St. Leonard, so I didn’t have too much grocery shopping to do in Grand Falls.<\/p>\n

Just past Grand Falls, I was able to get onto the road that would take me right to Fredericton. It was a small, relatively quiet road with some attractive scenery, and a few more hills than I had expected.<\/p>\n

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What it also had, that I hadn’t expected was unleashed dogs who were more than happy to begin chasing after me (forcing me to stop the bike and dismount until I could tell them to go home, as I was entirely uninterested in getting knocked off my bike (and would have been even without Graydon’s experience in that area; July 1st 2007 and onward a few weeks if you want to read about it in his LiveJournal<\/a>). I hadn’t actually encountered any chasers in the rest of the country, but they came right out of the woodwork once I hit this road. I have a hunch that all the other roads I rode on either had too much traffic, or too few homes to be able to provide a steady supply of chasers.<\/p>\n

Another thing that astonished me once I got down towards more Anglo parts of the province was the teenagers who’d pass me in their cars, yelling “fag” out the window. Again, I hadn’t encountered any of those in the rest of the country. Needless to say, between the teenagers and the dogs, I was beginning to have some doubts about Atlantic Canada’s legendary friendliness.<\/p>\n

I had thought to stop in Florenceville, and still topped up my water there, and took a picture of the covered bridge:<\/p>\n

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It still being a good bit short of halfway to Fredericton (and expecting that with the slog I’d set out for myself, on any given day I’d want to ride a shorter distance than the last) I pressed on until I’d cleared an imperial century, and then found myself a place to make camp next to the local church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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