After departing from Ottawa, I continued on the Prescott Russell trail to go to Montreal.
I chose this trail over the lake shore path because of the shorted distance. I found out my mistake soon enough - it was made of gravel and took 30% more effort to gain the same distance. Thus after about an hour of this hell I gave up and decided to go back to the main lakeshore road. Mistake number two as it was some 10km north and unsafe to bike on with the traffic and small shoulder lanes. So for the second time in the same day I trekked again back to the gravel trail - after wasting some 20km of distance.
I stopped for the night just outside of Van leek hill and wild camped on a patch of land beside the road. It was just in time too as the rain started to come down hard right after I set up camp and night was beginning to set.
In the morning I continued my journey and thankfully found a better path after passing Van leek. I was able to bike the rest of the way to Montreal on similarly nice roads. Eventually I passed by Hudson and took the ferry across to Oka on the otherside and crossed officially into Montreal around
6pm.
I arrived at my couch surfer Cameron' place. Cameron's roommates Caitlyn and Diego made me at home. At night we had a big BBQ and I stuffed my face full before finally retiring for the night.
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| ferry across the St. Lawrence river into beautiful Oka. |
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| Flooded trail, detoured around for an extra 15km - fun (not)! |
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| Bridge into Montreal from Laval. |
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| My bike infront of my host's place in Montreal. |
End of update.
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