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Published: December 12th 2006
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This is the 12th part of a series about my trip on my 2005 883 Low Harley Sportster ‘Effie’ from Kansas City to Novia Scotia and back. This was part of my vacation from 4 to 20 AUG 2006
Tue 15 Aug 06
Finished the Cabot Trail. I can’t put it in words. The pictures say it all. Man that takes a long time to go around. I think I was on the trail for 8 hours, the road was in good condition. Its just awesome. I had the best seafood chowder ever at a local café, followed by a platter of scallops and chips. Even the McDonalds here offers the ‘McLobster’. Around every corner I kept expecting to see Moby Dicks ‘Try Pots' inn. People were spotting whales from the cliffs. In the afternoon the wind picked up. Really picked up. After a while I dared not stop the bike for pictures as it became hard to hold it up right against the wind gusts. I tried a couple times to stop and take pictures but I could not spare a hand to operate the camera, the wind was that bad, it took all I had to not
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The Cabot Trail is in the Farthest NE corner of NS get blown over. If the bike had gone over, I never could have gotten back up on the kickstand by myself in that wind. As I was finishing the trail it started to lightly sprinkle too. I already had my 2 coats and raincoat on because of the ‘cool’ ride. So I continued. At times the roads were dry and other times there was misting and sprinkles. I never stopped to put the pants on as I wasn’t getting really wet. I want to make it as close a possible to Prince Edward Island yet today.
When it started pouring, I had no warning and because I hadn't stopped to get my rain pants on, I now have wet boots. Wet boots to me is demoralizing. When it got dark I was wet and freezing. It was way past the point I should have stopped by the time I got back to the NS Information Center, but I couldn’t find a motel along the route. When I went into the info center I didn’t even take my helmet off, I was so cold. I was dripping all over the floor. I asked the adviser to find me a cheap,
Cabot Trail
The first 4 pictures in this blog were take the day before, I just wanted to put all the Cabot Trail pictures togetther. clean and safe motel that was very very close and very very easy to find. The travel advisor found exactly what I wanted, called to confirm a room, make my reservation and gave me easy to understand directions. When I showed up at the motel the desk clerk had my key in hand and called me by name as I entered the lobby door. Once I was in my room a warm shower and propping my boots up on the heat register were the first tasks to complete.
The day ended as one of those days when I knew I had screwed up pretty bad and my fear was that I would catch a bad cold or flu from this.
Routes are done, pictures are done the daily log is just notes, but I am going to bed. Its 10:28pm. Oh, yeah, it’s the Victoria Motel in Amsted NS. $59 +tax.
Tomorrow should be a clear day.
The First Journal in this Series is:
06 Far East Ride - Day 1 - MO The Route Map for the trip is located in the last Journal:
06 Far East Ride - Day 17 - HOME
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