Day 73: Montreal to Sulpice

When the root of a problem ends up leading back to ones self, it is much easier to call fowl and blame it on mechanical failure that come clean and admit ones fault. That is to say, the fan in the house claire had graciously lent to us was not broken. The sleepy non fully functioning brains of Alan and Ginny instead failed to fully realize the significance of an important sustainable and ecological feature of the fan; the timer. So instead of realizing that the fan was on a 2 hour timer and resetting it, there sweated and sweated and sweated.

Needless to say while Alan and Ginny were exhausted , Evan, Leah and Shane slept great and everyone really enjoyed and appreciated the kindness and generosity of Kim and Claire. Their new house in southern Montreal is a great place with a beautiful back yard that we hope to visit again soon when evan and Leah move to Montreal in january!



We used the space to it's fullest by inviting evan & Trevor Cervelli , and Evan's partner Hanna over. Trevor had recently moved there and evan and hannah were visiting. We planned to devour down a mountain of eggs, melon, Danishes and since our guests were a bit late arriving, the 5 of us bikers nearly ate enough for 8 people!

Getting out of Montreal promised to be easier than our way in and for the most part it was. The Route verte is a great bike path but it tends to err on the long side winding through the suburbs. We have finally figured that sometimes it is better to stick with the big roads when the bike path winds off in some wierd place. This works well because even the big roads in Quebec often have a big shoulder if not a bike lane!

On one of our detours we finally discovered an important statistic of Montreal suburbs. Hundreds of Thousands of people live in the suburbs which are filled with row upon row of identical houses. The design that they are based off in Montreal has a pool. If you do the math you come up with this equation.
Burbs= 100 000's of pools! Wasting alot of time by winding through the route verte in the deadly heat and being unable to swim in these pools was tormenting! Ahhhh

Despite the torture, we finally arrived at the saint sulpice trailer park. The people were nice but no matter how hard we try we just can't understand the RV park culture. The way things are going, we will have a lot more to say about this later. However I will leaving you with one highlight of this park...Christmas in July...

All evening residents of this RV park would drive up and down the lanes in their golf carts decked out in christmas lights and sequence. When dark came their trailers came alive with lights drapped over ornamental Santa clauses and reindeer. Maybe it was the heat and we were simply seeing things but this was too much for our tired brains to handle to we headed to bed, trying to avoid dream of sugarplums...





Distance: 65.54 km
Time on bikes: 3:58:22
Average speed: 16.4 km/h
Distance from Vancouver: 5754 km
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 7:15 pm
Wind: West (cross-medium)
Conditions: hot! (32)


Cheers
- The Warpotay Team

Location:Saint-Sulpice, Quebec