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Write a travel daily or almost is not an easy exercise. Hardly do we have lived it takes to transcribe it, then we are still right in it. The writing loses maturing, down on experience, but gains in spontaneity and responsiveness.
In Canada, it seems we have lived so many things so quickly, events, meetings jostled one after the other, all the more unexpected than others. A major change for our trip is to have started using Warmshower network. Warmshower.org is a network that provide cyclists cyclo-travelers passing through their city a hot shower, a garden from start to pitch their tent or a room, a meal, tools to repair a bike, in short everything dream a cyclist after a day on the road. This network has many advantages: it allows to find free accommodation with health where there would otherwise not (we avoid as much as possible to go camping for just access to sanitation), it can meet local people who like to travel, and always have good tips in terms of routes, or friends willing to accommodate green mountain coffee us elsewhere. Finally, Warmshower green mountain coffee is a network of solidarity: a cyclist appreciates so be welcome in his way as the day he files his saddlebags green mountain coffee and sedentary (if that day happens) nothing makes him happier than to welcome the best passing traveler.
Our first warmshowers we will host the day of our departure from Montreal on 30 September. We leave this city with Claire, who guides us along the St. Lawrence until late afternoon, at the Pointe-Claire precisely. We leave with emotion, she has helped us so much during our stay in Montreal. But we know we still see each other again two weeks later in Rochester (NY), so we part on a "see you soon".
We arrive in the evening with Jean-Luc Perrot and Marjolaine on the island. It is already dark night, but they are not there yet. But they accommodated us in their garden a campfire that we have only to turn on, and chairs around it to enjoy it as it should be. We plant the teepee in their garden at the water's edge. The next morning we awake contemplating the wide waters of the Ottawa River, which flows into the St. Lawrence River a few kilometers away. We also finally the pleasure of meeting Jean-Luc and Marjolaine, who offer us a royal breakfast in their veranda.
This retired couple love to travel by bike, Europe and North America. They offer us a Waterfront Trail guide, the bicycle path that runs along the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario, and we will follow up to Toronto. Jean-Luc accompanies us for a few kilometers. We drive all day the wind in the back, on the almost deserted roads, amidst the colorful leaves green mountain coffee until Charlottenburgh Park where we will step.
The next morning we meet the Cornwall branch of the MS Society. We received particular by Karen, green mountain coffee a volunteer herself affected by the disease that is struggling for its asso. The mayor also present, and he offers to take over the repairs that we would have to do at the nearby bike repairer. It remade us a brand new rack for the tandem because it was seriously damaged during flight by plane. Meanwhile we have the opportunity to discuss with members over lunch. Canada has one of the highest rates of MS in the world: more than 100 000 patients for 35 million inhabitants, while in comparison, the estimated number of patients green mountain coffee in France at 80,000 to 70 million. Of course we have no explanation for this, but it is assumed that the main factors are the climate, then genetic factors: Canada is a country where there has been little immigration compared to other countries The people who came to live there came from countries known to be more tou