Starting Point - Baddeck

Cory and I packed up the car earlier this morning to start our official bike packing trip. We left Halifax around 12:30 and arrived just before 4. As you can see, the drive was very wet. It poured off and on for the majority of the trip but cleared just as we arrived in Baddeck at the Silver Dart Lodge. I’m happy it was pouring today as we are expecting cloudy conditions tomorrow and I didn’t pack my full rain kit 😬.

After checking in we prepped our bikes and packed all our gear. It’s pretty amazing how small everything can compress and how much those bike bags fit. I definitely would need panniers if this was a camping bike pack trip, but we’re going fast and light, so credit card bike packing was the way to go.

The view from our room and front patio is amazing. It still a little chilly out and I’m wishing I brought over tights for the week as I expect my legs may get a little cold with the low temps and potential rain on Tuesday. However, my back up plan is to just wear my technical pants for off the bike, fingers crossed it’s not necessary.

For dinner tonight we went to The Freight Shed, an amazing waterfront restaurant. Our starters tonight were steamed mussels and scallops followed by a Vegetarian flatbread for Cory and Crab cakes for me. It was an awesome meal, exactly what I was hoping for at the start of our trip. There was a lighthouse in view from the patio, too bad it was chilly with a little mist coming down which meant we could eat out there.

In preparation for tonight’s Oilers game, we picked up some salty crunchy snacks from the local convenience store. Unfortunately, our hotel doesn’t have Sportsnet 🤬. Of course, it’s not a smart tv so we couldn’t stream to it and I didn’t bring an adapter to connect my phone to the tv, it was on my original packing list but didn’t make the cut.

The good news is we’ll able to stream the game on own phones, thank goodness for technology!!!

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