day 26

On our second day in Canada we had delightful country roads again.  We reached Niagara Falls and we're back on schedule.  The Garmin was working fine and we're getting better at reading Ontario roadsigns.  The day was cool and comfortable.  Flat roads, more corn and soybeans, it felt like we were riding around Austin.  One fun area was near Burford.  We pedaled through a truck farming region, we played guess the vegetable in that field.  We were surprised to find fields of tobacco.  We later found the Six Nations tribes grew tobacco, which is heavily subsidised.  We passed shop after shop selling "rollies",  large bags of cigarettes at dirt cheap prices.
We had two interesting guest bicycle encounters.  In the morning, the first was a young man in a heavy coat with an old touring bike with panniers, a large nine volt light roped onto the handlebars, no helmet, and obviously living on the road, who caught up with us just after passing through a small town. He queried as to where we were going, and vowed to follow along to maybe ride with us to Minnesota. He kept up for a few miles then said that he better "do the milk run" and stop at each town to rest. The second encounter was an "elderly couple".....probably our age.... who were out riding for one of their routine rides. The wife rides 200+ miles weekly; they both belong to their local bike club. They were delightful, providing a great mid afternoon break.
Roe