Departure Day

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And so another trip begins. It took not much time at all to cram bikes and gear into the car (well, at least to cram <em style="background-color: transparent; color:𛈇 font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px;">my stuff - the heavy lifting had already been done by the time Linda and Dave arrived at my place). Mind you, we did have to stop just outside Ottawa to secure the bike rack itself, which seemed in danger of falling off the car and taking my bike with it.

Unlike last year where we encountered heavy rain just outside Montreal, this time it poured all the way from Ottawa. OTOH whereas in 2013 we hit lots of traffic and lineups at the airport, this time there were no crowds and check-in was quite relaxed - perhaps because it turned our flight had been re-scheduled to depart 3 hours later than originally scheduled (and yes, I had checked before we left and saw no indication on the website).

I am thus quite grateful to have a laptop with which to bide the time. Only 4 hours left until our scheduled departure!<br style="background-color: transparent; color:𛈇 font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px;" /><br style="background-color: transparent; color:𛈇 font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: 19.2px;" />

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