So the day started wonderfully. About 180+miles round trip. We were able to stay two nights at the KOA outside of Sydney, NS. This allowed us to drop the bags off the bike, and toole around like sport bikes:)
Today's only mission was the 180+/- miles of the Cabot trail, including a detour to Meat Cove:
Sadly, this is the closest have been able to get moose to date:
After yesterday's interlude with Peggy's Cove, we were a bit pessimistic that Cabot trail could deliver. But deliver it did-- wild roads, hills, curves, high speeds, and low traffic!
We took the side road out to Meat Cove. Fab little dirt road, although we did notice that no bikes with Chrome made it down the hilly dirt roads!
There is a nice campground at meat cove and a small restaurant. The restaurant only had 4 menus, with most the stuff out-of-stock (no crab nor lobsters), not even a pop which wasn't diet. This was the last of the mussels:
Both bikes have been running great and all the prep of the gear is making things pretty easy. Upgrading to the three person tent was a good move and my cot is great as well...Dana will be buying one once we return. We are kind of in the between stages for summer versus a warmer winter jacket. I have been for the most part, except for when it was raining, been wearing my summer mesh jacket with a long sleeve shirt underneath. Some places its been as cold as 60 degrees but with the long sleeves and the grip heaters its tolerable. I have been wearing my Aerostich Darien pants and they have been plenty warm and on some days a little toasty but I wouldn't change anything. SIDI riding boots are still squeaking after several thousand miles but plenty comfortable and did not leak the day it was raining. Also before I left I picked up a Shoei flip up helmet and that has worked good for keeping hydrated and a quick snack at stops so overall pretty happy. I took a lot of advice of others and cut up a pound or two of jerky in bite size morsels and kept a few munchy bars in the tank bag for keeping energy levels pretty level throughout the day. I have used most everything I have brought so I won't have to change out much of the loadout.
And here is a few random shots of the day.
Up and brite and early for the ferry in the morning.
Today's only mission was the 180+/- miles of the Cabot trail, including a detour to Meat Cove:
Sadly, this is the closest have been able to get moose to date:
After yesterday's interlude with Peggy's Cove, we were a bit pessimistic that Cabot trail could deliver. But deliver it did-- wild roads, hills, curves, high speeds, and low traffic!
We took the side road out to Meat Cove. Fab little dirt road, although we did notice that no bikes with Chrome made it down the hilly dirt roads!
There is a nice campground at meat cove and a small restaurant. The restaurant only had 4 menus, with most the stuff out-of-stock (no crab nor lobsters), not even a pop which wasn't diet. This was the last of the mussels:
Both bikes have been running great and all the prep of the gear is making things pretty easy. Upgrading to the three person tent was a good move and my cot is great as well...Dana will be buying one once we return. We are kind of in the between stages for summer versus a warmer winter jacket. I have been for the most part, except for when it was raining, been wearing my summer mesh jacket with a long sleeve shirt underneath. Some places its been as cold as 60 degrees but with the long sleeves and the grip heaters its tolerable. I have been wearing my Aerostich Darien pants and they have been plenty warm and on some days a little toasty but I wouldn't change anything. SIDI riding boots are still squeaking after several thousand miles but plenty comfortable and did not leak the day it was raining. Also before I left I picked up a Shoei flip up helmet and that has worked good for keeping hydrated and a quick snack at stops so overall pretty happy. I took a lot of advice of others and cut up a pound or two of jerky in bite size morsels and kept a few munchy bars in the tank bag for keeping energy levels pretty level throughout the day. I have used most everything I have brought so I won't have to change out much of the loadout.
And here is a few random shots of the day.
Up and brite and early for the ferry in the morning.