Day 19

The GPS has been repaired, bu failed to make it back to Sorel from Toronto ,as hoped, on the Friday.
Yesterday was really fun. We cleaned and polished Lydia, and met a number of boaters. Many of the boater with large and beautiful boats prefer her size an looks to their own and to a man , all feel she is the ideal boat for doing the great loop. The boaters are a very friendly lot. However, the bicyclists  we meet on the many bike paths are not so friendly and our bonjours go unanswered.

In the afternoon we rode to the ferry that takes you to Isle St Ignace and bicycled there enjoying the rural atmosphere and many small houses on the water. This was a treat.

Today it was cooler and so we biked out to the country again and then went shopping at Canada Tire which is a cross between WalMart and Lowes. At present Marti has biked out to the little old farmer that gives us delicious corn. She is cute and iI think that is why the corn is free. If I went likely we would have to pay. At Canada Tire we got an indoor/outdoor thermometer, as the heat and humidity have been very bad. When we set it up we found that it only reads I degrees Celsius. 31C this afternoon.

One thing we have noticed is that Canadians live a life much like America in the 40s & 50s. Much conversation, all park benches full day and evenings. community gardens in some of the parks. People bicycle averywhere and there are great, two way bike lanes on many of the city streets. 4 way stop signs on almost every corner make biking safe and efficient. Traffic is very polite to the bicyclist.

Our French is improving as are our quads.

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