Day 62 – In Search of Holes (Saint Louis de Kent, NB Rest Day)

After a rainy night, a buffet breakfast, and 90 minutes cleaning the filth off my bike and lubing it, it was off to the pool with my air mattress top try and find the hole(s) and patch them.

After what seemed like an eternity of holding it under water (I am sure some onlookers thought I was trying to drown someone) some miniscule bubbles appeared. The next task was to mark them so I could patch them later, then to dry the mattress and finally patch the holes.

Yet Another Sunny Day!!!

I patched the holes before lunch, rode two miles into Sainte Louis de Kent (the birthplace of the Acadian Flag) with Serge and P-A for lunch. After lunch, I tested out my repairs – apparently there are more than two holes in the mattress – off to the pool to try and find the others!!!







Side Note:   In our haste yesterday, unbeknownst to us at the time, Serge and I missed the turn off to the campsite from the main road, and 6 miles down the road figured out that we should take the next exit, even though it was not the same road as the one marked on the cue sheet. We spent the next 4 miles commenting on how poorly the cue sheets were written – not only did they get the mileage wrong, they got the road wrong!!! When we got to camp, we were first in for the day, arriving just after the truck. Our view was that the cue sheet couldn’t be too bad, because after all, we made it into camp.

When the other riders came in we asked them what they thought of the cue sheet, and its inaccuracies. We were pretty sheepish to learn that we had missed the turn, but managed to get in an extra few miles for the day.