{"id":67,"date":"2007-09-01T23:15:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-02T04:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bikeforest.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2008-03-01T14:51:18","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T19:51:18","slug":"touring-the-north-shore-of-lake-superior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Touring the North Shore of Lake Superior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wedding in Thunder Bay seemed like a good excuse for a bike trip. Greg and I left Thunder Bay last Sunday and arrived back in Waterloo today. To cover the 1350km in\u00a0seven days, we elected to travel light, carrying only minimal clothing and tools. We mostly slept in motels and ate at grocery stores and restaurants. We also meant to travel with Nat, who\u00a0was doing the same route with full camping gear. Unfortunately, tailwinds, an excess of macaroni salad, a Zellers belt, and a communication system consisting of Post-it notes left at random tourist information centres conspired to keep us apart until the last night of the trip when we met up with Nat on the Chi-Cheemaun ferry\u00a0between Manitoulin Island and Tobermory. Although Nat is a really great guy, with the furious pace that he\u00a0set on our final ride through Southern Ontario, I realized that it might have been for the best that we did not spend the entire week with the pro cyclist and RAAM record holder. All in all, it was a great week of cycling through\u00a0some of the\u00a0most beautiful landscapes in Canada. Here are some photos from the trip.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/nipigon.jpg\" alt=\"East of Nipigon\" title=\"East of Nipigon\" class=\"blackborder\" \/><\/p>\n<table cellPadding=\"0\" cellSpacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/lake_superior_descent.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Superior descent\" title=\"Lake Superior descent\" class=\"blackborder\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100%\"><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/rossport.jpg\" alt=\"Rossport\" title=\"Rossport\" class=\"blackborder\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wawa_lake.jpg\" alt=\"Wawa Lake\" title=\"Wawa Lake\" class=\"blackborder\" \/><\/p>\n<table cellPadding=\"0\" cellSpacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/youngs_general_store.jpg\" alt=\"Young's General Store\" title=\"Young's General Store\" class=\"blackborder\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100%\"><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/old_woman_bay.jpg\" alt=\"Old Woman Bay\" title=\"Old Woman Bay\" class=\"blackborder\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table cellPadding=\"0\" cellSpacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/agawa_rock.jpg\" alt=\"Pictographs\" title=\"Pictographs\" class=\"blackborder\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100%\"><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/greg_brent_agawa_rock.jpg\" alt=\"Greg and Brent at Agawa Rock\" title=\"Greg and Brent at Agawa Rock\" class=\"blackborder\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table cellPadding=\"0\" cellSpacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/greg_brent_nat.jpg\" alt=\"Greg, Brent, Nat\" title=\"Greg, Brent, Nat\" class=\"blackborder\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 100%\"><\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/nat_bob.jpg\" alt=\"Nat: Cycling Demon\" title=\"Nat: Cycling Demon\" class=\"blackborder\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wedding in Thunder Bay seemed like a good excuse for a bike trip. Greg and I left Thunder Bay last Sunday and arrived back in Waterloo today. To cover the 1350km in\u00a0seven days, we elected to travel light, carrying only minimal clothing and tools. We mostly slept in motels and ate at grocery stores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikeforest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}