Petite-Rivière-Saint-François

P&J cooked up some sumptuous T-bone BBQd steaks, baked potatoes, mushrooms, cheese, salads, nachos, and cake. - these guys were professional calorie consumers and knew exactly what I needed!

I guess I should apologise for the downbeat tone of my previous post... Thanks to those worries I'd spent the whole night unable to sleep, with the problems just going round and round in my head - hence waking an emotional wreck.

It's a really unusual life being on a bike all day...I feel like my adrenaline and blood sugar levels are roller coasters on the same track going in different directions around some sort of crazy Gordian knot. One minute I'm laughing and chatting happily to myself and the next I'm crying tears whipped away by the wind.

I should also clear up that Pierre wasn't in any way being nasty or unkind - he was in fact an incredibly useful and generous guy, not least because he solved my broken rack issue by giving me - yes gratis! - his old chromalloy rear pannier rack that should last me a lifetime.
Hero! But I think yesterday's mental bruising was just down to the fact that sometimes the truth hurts but that it leaves you better-off, informed, and able to then work with facts to progress. Tout est bien.

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And finally....after much waffle, and battling snow and hail storms
..I've reached Quebec City! Hurrah!

The day was then topped off when a cyclist approached me as I arrived in the city, we got chatting, he was also touring, and also staying with a WS host this evening. Fun fun fun. Only one thing to do then....🍻....and despite 10 declinations, a WS host came through to save the day in the form of Boromir! This lovely outgoing guy with a winning smile was already hosting a young couple but has managed to squeeze me in on the couch with the warming cuddles of his two cats and two rabbits! Hurrah - more 🍻

First day off tomorrow - exciting day in the city!

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