Day 54 Port Hope, Ontario
Hi Everyone,
I hope that everyone gets this because the Comfort Inn wifi
will download for me but will not upload so I am using the
hotel computer in the lobby.
This morning I started from Toronto (Scarborough) and
went on Kingston which is a big avenue and which is like
riding down Stevens Creek Blvd or El Camino Real.
I don't believe how big Toronto is because I thought that
I was on the eastern edge of the city and I must have
ridden 10 miles before I was sure that I was out of Toronto.
Not all of Toronto or the surrounding area is flat. I was
riding on rollers all day.
I did not have to worry about finding food for the first half
of the day. Where I rode was like riding down the peninsula -
one town after another and you don't know town you are in
except for the city limit signs.
Eventually I got out of the city and the suburbs and into the
countryside. Then I had 5 to 10 miles between towns.
I was tired of fighting the headwind and decided to cut the
ride short and started to look for a motel but motels where
in almost every town that I had passed earlier until I decided
that I wanted one. I got to Newtonville and asked where the
next motels where and decided that the one in Welcome was
too isolated and Cobourg was probably another 10 miles away
so I stopped in Port Hope and asked a local where the motels
were. He sent me down a road parallel to Hwy 401 (a freeway)
to the next highway interchange and I found a Comfort Inn,
McDonalds, etc. This was still in Port Hope so I just went
straight along the freeway instead of curving around the old town.
The Statistics: 57.36 miles and 1297 feet of climb in a windy
day (headwinds)
Steve in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada east of Toronto
Posted by steveruthrar
at 2:44 PM PDT
Updated: Monday, 23 August 2010 2:58 PM PDT
