Day 6

Another fantastic day unfolded as we rode from Sherbrooke to Danville a total of 68 km.  We started out with another great breakfast at our B&B.

Mango with Yogurt and Granola

After 4 days of travel our laundry pile was advancing and needed to be beaten back.

 

Cathy’s Picture

Cathy has devised a great system to attach partially dried clothing to her bike with clothes pins.  It works wonderfully well when the sun beating down.

Cathy’s Picture

The early morning sun provided some great backlit photo opportunities and a chance to capture a gull eating breakfast.

Our route took us along a great mixture of trail types today.  The variety was really stimulating and seemed to make the time whizz by.

 

Cathy’s Picture

My brain was on visual overload trying to process the artist’s palette of forest colors flashing by as we rode along.  Brilliant reds, muted oranges, a whole concoction of greens and grays with a perfectly blue sky and puffy clouds formed a constantly changing backdrop for our ride.  It seems the colors are changing a little bit each day.

Our lunch stop was punctuated with a confusing view of people eating a strange mix of cheese and milk.  Cathy queried the non-English speaking person at the sales counter. Apparently she told him in French that she was from Saskatchewan and she had never seen this food before and 'What is it'. He disappeared into the kitchen and came back with a sample. It is apparently a local favorite where you add salt to the cheese curd and eat with coke and chips.  Huummmmm

Cathy’s Picture

Cathy’s Picture showing the locals eating fresh cheese. Note the Coke cans!

At 2:30 in the afternoon my bottom was on fire and I felt like sitting in a stream but couldn’t find one so we stopped for a rest and an apple. Cathy captured this shot of me resting on a local bench.

I was most intrigued with the farming operations we encountered today.  Farmers were harvesting corn, tilling fields and covering bales with plastic wrap.  This was a farming operation I had never seen before.