Sunday, August 07, 2005

Sunday, August 7, 2005

Day 41 – Reorganizing Day

After a somewhat sleepless night (for Adele and me), I got up and phoned Albert. I knew he had been out the night before, so hadn’t tried then. I filled him in on the situation; I felt sorry for him, as he had just got out of bed and didn’t have a clear head quite yet. I asked him to try to find someone to come down to Sault Ste Marie with him to drive the van back; I suggested he tell the choir at St. James’, because I knew someone would come up with a good idea. I then got some maps out, to outline the route we would take, especially through Ontario, and to figure out how many kilometers we had to go and how long it would take us. I was rather dismayed to figure out that we would still have about 3,250 km to go after Sault Ste Marie.

By 12:30 p.m., while still trying to work things out, I got a phone call back from Albert. He had great news! Two St. James’ choir members are coming to our rescue. Jean Kemp is able to support us until Sunday night, August 14th, and George Northrop will take over after that, until the time Cam Russell was taking over anyway. You can’t believe the relief I felt. I know Cassie was disappointed, as she was starting to look forward to the adventure of going “loaded”, but I had become quite fearful of being able to complete the trip on time, and all the other details that I knew would have to be worked out. Suddenly, I could keep all the clothes I had with me, all the toiletries, and all the other things I had been fussing about during the night (silly, the things you think about when you can’t sleep).

After such an emotional roller coaster, we decided we would just drive to Wawa, which is where we would have been biking today. I felt some regret as I saw how flat the terrain was and that the wind would have been in my back, but I felt drained, physically and mentally. I had made many phone calls, to Albert and Nory, trying to work out details, and I needed to rest. We stopped at the Winnie the Pooh statue in White River, and at the big Canada Goose in Wawa, then found a campsite. After quickly setting up, we went into Wawa for dinner, carrying Adele in between us. More phone calls followed, then I went to bed, in hopes of a good sleep so I could get up early to do the first shift of biking in the morning.

Fauna notes: While in the campground, a fox came right over to us – obviously we didn’t try to touch him! Then, when we were driving out of Marathon, we saw a bear! Needless to say, I was again glad I was in the van and not on my bike.

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