Thunder Bay

The road to Thunder bay was a long long bendy twist of highway wrapping around boulders and navigating around lakes. The lack of shoulder to ride on presented a particularily hard challenge that allowed us to test our truck dodging skills on a bike. The road from here to Sault Sainte Marie isn't any better. In fact, it's worse.

The guys at Woodcock Cycles in Winnipeg got a few of our bike issues sorted out. We laced up a few spare rims, and were confident in the successful completion of the next leg of our journey. However, as we are never without bike problems, we knew that we weren't out of the woods yet...literally.

As we manned the 4 man down the highway on a narrow strip of shoulder, we were intermittently disrupted by the snapping of spokes. In one day, we managed to snap 3 spokes all on the same front-left side of the wheel. We only had 4 spares for that side. Fearing a rim crushing bike smashing fall to the ground, we decided to put on the spare rim for the front wheel.

The rain and the wet hasn't subsided, but we managed to make it this far. From here on out we're driving towards the coast. We're in the eastern watershed. Everything is flowing towards the east. We will be in Toronto soon.

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