Wednesday August 15th
I slept horribly as I was quite restless which is surprising considering I bonked yesterday. I didn’t matter though I needed to get up and find breakfast somewhere since the chocolate cup cake I had this morning will only hold me a short while. Very quickly I rode out to the coast which was about a kilometer away to see the ocean and the mouth of the river. It really wasn’t that spectacular or anything but it was a beach andv on a h ot sunny day it would be alright. I rode about 30 km before hitting a bigger town but all of the breakfast places where not open yet so I had to go to Tim Hortons. The nice lady there let me charge my tablet while I wolfed down two breakfast bagels and a hot chocolate. Today is Acadia day and even a few dressed up people came into the store. This explains all of the streamers and excessive amount of small Acadia flags everywhere. As I mentioned before this really feels more like Quebec in many ways.
More long gradual hills today and early in the day I was feeling sleepy so I pulled under an Underpass and slept on the sloping wall away from traffic. I got in a good 20 minutes if you can believe I slept through traffic noise! The clouds where starting to look a little more ominous and I wondered if the wind would blow them away as I had a kind of crosswind today or I would be right in it. It turns out the latter as I saw the rain line about 200 meters from an underpass and had to sprint for it. I hung out there for 20 minutes for it to mostly go away. I ventured out and a few kilometers down the road had to do the same thing but it wasn’t as torrential as the previous stop.
I headed East into Shediac since I was bypassing Moncton for now and will probably visit on my way back. This is where I ran into my first real problem of the day. I was minding my own business taking pictures of the giant lobster when he asked me to come over for a minute. He was very charming and asked all the right questions about my trip and told me he was very proud of me. I was drawn into him which no one had warned me about, He then asked if I had eaten any lobster on my travels. Hmmm a curious question but I answered “why yes I had my first one and quite enjoyed eating the little fuker to be frank”. I then felt the grip of an 8 tonne lobster in full fury….
After my escape I rode to Cap Pele where there was a provincial park but unfortunately there was no campgrounds there. I had seen some private campground s before i got there but I was tired and ended up staying a motel which gave me a little discount. After cleaning up I went back to the park since they had a little restaurant with an outdoor entertainment area where they were celebrating with some blue grass or I guess Acadia style music. I hung out for a few hours until the main act came on and did some country covers “guitars, Cadillacs and hill billy music…”: Dwight Yokam if I recall.
