“Summary: rain not bad, keeps body cool. I need cycling shoes and toe clips, mirror to view traffic behind”
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CHAPTER EIGHT - Brief Debrief
After any trip I like to sit on the back deck and think or talk about the miles covered, people seen, likes and dislikes, pros and cons and what I could do better next time. Because there will always be a next time.
When I summarized some of my feelings on paper while sitting at the corner of Ferguson and Yarmouth Centre Line, still several miles from home on Monday, August 27 I wrote the following:
I should consider fenders...
Maybe I was tired of water from the road flying onto my hat.
I continued:
... paniers front and back, video camera mount, (therefore) save time, though getting off bike is a GOOD thing
Maybe I was thinking that ‘lighter is better’ and that people would love to watch videos of me cycling down a country road in baggy shorts. Maybe my rear end was sore.
Actually, it was really sore because I added these words next:
Wider seat, eg., like a tractor (seat) for my sore bum
Hey, at least I’m honest. And at the time I was pretty happy because my final note says this:
Goal: go again, plan next trip, doesn’t have to be longer.
And from those words I deduce that I had a good time during my four day bicycle trip to Port Bruce. As well, I had so much fun I wanted to go on more trips like it. I perhaps felt I'd do the same trip again someday and realized four days away from home was a very good break for a guy of my age and temperament.
Already I feel future destinations might include Long Point, Turkey Point, Paris, Damascus, Brussels, Zurich, and Vienna. I hear Paris is especially beautiful at anytime of year and is within easy reach by bicycle from my home in London, Ontario. Less than 100 kilometers, I think.
Perhaps I’ll forget the tractor seat idea and walk next time, say to a camp ground closer to home. Though a walk to Port Bruce can’t be too daunting can it?
We’ll see. Anything is possible as I continue to discover the world in one pair of pants.
[Photos by G.Harrison]
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