SO our repairs this time put us in the situation of having to rush to fit the BOB and our two bikes in a luggage bay of an Acadian bus in about 3 minutes time. After unsuccessfully procuring a one-way car rental and finding that taxi's charged 200 smackaroos to get us to Sydney we were directed to the bus by one of the taxi companies! 4 hours later we arrived into a very dark Sydney, Nova Scotia and found a hotel that was luckily having a sale on their rooms for the night. So today, I sat in the park and gaurded our stuff while book bingeing (that is what we've decided I do.. I don't read a book... I binge it) and Neil went off and bought yet ANOTHER new rear wheel to replace his highly instable one. He did keep his old wheel though and will have it rebuilt with a new rim when we return home. It's currently strapped onto the back of the B.O.B. and looks QUITE hilarious.
We only have but a few minutes at the library now, we are headed out to bike to North Sydney and meet Neil's Dad at the ferry. He just called so we know he made the drive safely and undeniably in much better time than we made the trip!
Promised story from last blog:
Neil met Sarah Belanger at Geek camp, oh, I mean at the Deep River Science Academy when he was 15 and they have remained fast friends ever since. I had the pleasure of meeting her in Sackville, New Brunswick on our last trip out east (that time by car on the way to Neil's Co-op placement in Newfoundland). And just a few days ago.... we both had the amazing pleasure of meeting her boyfriend Aaron! We had just finished biking through this hellacious construction zone/emergency scene detour-combo that had us going on a back-roads detour that had zero shoulders and roads that were not meant for 1 direction of semi-truck traffic, let alone PASSING semi's (don't worry, we pulled off the road whenever traffic from our direction caught up to us again, luckily due to the construction zone before the detour it came in spurts so we could mostly keep riding). ANyways, we had just finished this ride and were back on the normal highway when a dude pulls up in a car next to us with his window rolled down. I was expecting him to ask us for directions, because even with all of our gear people still expect cyclists to be local, when he asked, "Is your name Neil?"
We were both thrown a little until he explained that he was Aaron, Sarah's long-time boyfriend that we were finally supposed to meet the day before but had been thwarted by missing the earlier P.E.I. ferry by all of 16 minutes! SO he pulled over and we had a quick chat and pictures were taken with the camera and camera phone of course... and then he headed back on his way home!
Awesome meeting you Aaron!
Alright, library time is up!
Hope all is well at home!
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