Week 1: Lac Dufresne, QC to Dollard-des-Ormeaux, QC via Ottawa, ON

Sunday, June 29

Kayaking Around Lac Dufresne

After which, we drove to Ottawa.

Monday, June 30

Ottawa

Did some chores and visited a friend, but didn’t take any pictures.

Tuesday, July 1

Canada Day in Ottawa

Ottawa has some great bike trails:

We biked the Ottawa River Pathway from Bell’s Corners

past the beautiful new Ottawa Public Library and Library and Archives Canada building

to downtown Ottawa for Canada Day Activities on Wellington Street:

and on Parliament Hill:

Then we rode up the Rideau Canal:

to Hog’s Back Falls:

to watch some kayakers frollicing in the course:

before heading back to Bell’s Corners through the Experimental Farm.

Wednesday, July 2

Ottawa

Our big accomplishment today was baking our first loaf of bread in the Camper Van:

and visiting another friend.

Thursday, July 3

Ottawa

Visited another friend and again didn’t take any pictures.

Friday, July 4

Manotick

We visited with Uncle Bob:

who got in a picture with Sleepy Hollow:

Saturday, July 5

Pointe-Claire

We spent most of the day figuring out how to repair the gear shifter on Henry’s e-bike. Somehow, the cables in the shifter came loose, partially came out of their housing, and abraded on each other until they broke. We will spare you the pictures.

Since the Enviolo gear changers is a bit different than most gear shifters, and we wanted to go to a shop that knew them, which we found in Pointe-Claire.

While we were in Point-Claire, walked around the village to the Pointe-Claire Windmill:

and the Paroisse St-Joachim de Pointe-Claire:

More to Come

Next week’s blog is available, as well as last week’s, and don’t forget to see where we are right now (updated every ten minutes).