7/06/10 Kingston to Picton

We had never left that early 9:30am. Things are a little bit slow in the morning when you have to pack up everything back on the bikes: the tent, tarp, sleeping bags, mattress, million bags. It’s a great day with lots of sun, but also lots of wind so we’re not going as fast as we wish. But the view is beautiful with Lake Ontario almost looking like the sea.

We take the ferry in Glenora to get to Picton. Getting out of the ferry we saw a public toilet, so we decided to wash some clothes. As Xavier was washing and I was outside trying to wring out our clothes, people were waiting for the ferry and listening to very loud country music. So we used our bikes as clothes lines and continued on our way.

When we reached Picton, we got everything to cook some pasta with shrimp and cream, best meal since we left. We had no more water so we went to a gas station, that actually didn’t have a bathroom but they had a hose. It wasn’t really a hose, more like a giant fountain because there were so many holes in the tube that it was splashing all over. So I was there with my mittens and my tuque in a pool of water trying to fill the water bottles while Xavier was fighting at the gas pump to fill our small bottle of gas for the burner and spilling most of it on the ground. We got out of there both soaked, Xavier with gas and I with water. We slept between a grocery store and a field and it wasn’t bad. Distance : 72km