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 T
oronto 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

 

 

Sent from a pc in the Comfort Inn lobby