Every bike trip has some unplanned (i.e. troublesome) events. But never have I seen three of them all happen in the space of about 30 minutes. But before we get to that....after a nice day off in Montreal (jazz fest!), departedy (on time!) early cause it was gonna be HOT. 20 miles along the islands south shore through parts of the city I had never been to. All on well signed bike trail, and then afyer crossing 2 bridges, along the river on the north side. Stopped in saint sulpice where we had brunch and did a driver swap. After, the road got really nice - good shoulder, mostly right along river until the ferry over to sorel. We did have one little extra loop when we mistakenly followed the path in lavaltrie, but overall a straight shot up route 138. Was hot but not terrible, with a slight headwind. Arrival at our hotel (in unremarkable sorel) with plenty of time to swim.
And then the trouble began. Donna's bag was nowhere to be found, until we called the alt hotel in Montreal. So while Jon drove back to get it, and noticed a nail in the cars tire, Paula started puking and our 2 doctors brought her to the hospital. Boy, things went south in a hurry. Paula got some fluids while the rest of us had dinner on nice patio on the river (sorry Paula - hungry after riding all day. But look at chodirker-deeners unhappiness in photo). 58 miles, including the 1 mile ferry ride.
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