XCan Day 64 - Rivière du Loop to Rimouski

Distance: 98.7 km
Time: 3:13
Speed: 30.6 km / hr - wind assisted again
Ascent: 504 m
Weather: really comfortable temperature but humidity made it feel like 30 degrees
Flats: 0
Bathroom Rating: 9 very clean but you couldn't turn around in the showers

We have started our ride around the Gaspe Peninsula. It is still a farming area but the towns and villages are further apart and English is starting to become more scarce. I suspect in the next little bit there will be very little English spoken and we will be forced to carry all our water and food rather than relying on coffee shops and restaurants.  Unfortunately my grade 9 French and Dave's high school French isn't cutting it at this point.  We may soon resort to charades!
The weather started out at a really comfortable temperature but we were soon sweating buckets because of the humidity. And the wind was perfect, blowing at our backs and making it easy to ride about 40km/hr on the flat stretches.  Two days in a row of favourable wind - we are loving it.
Dave and I were hoping to find a lunch spot in Saint Simon but all that was there was a bagel shop where you could buy bagels to take out (which we did, they smelled so good!) and then rode on to the next little village for lunch.  At this point we only had another 23km to reach the campground.
Heidi and Greg stopped for coffee earlier where Greg was able to park in a church parking lot.  As anyone knows who has been to Quebec, there is at least one huge church in each village, often more than one.  They are not well used any longer, Quebec having become a more secular province than in the past, but they are still running.
We are in Rimouski where the people we met a couple of days ago live.  They have texted us their website where their whole family is raising money for pancreatic cancer.  Really nice people, if you would like to donate to their cause: coasttocause.ca
Cheers for now,
Nancy and Dave