Left the hotel in Dégelis at 7:35 while the fog was still burning off. In St Leonard New Brunswick I filled up on gas and had a quick coffee at Tim Hortons while programming my GPS for the day's ride. I instructed my GPS guide to avoid highways and she really took it seriously. While all the roads had pavement on them, some weren't much more than well weathered and seriously beaten up asphalt. For those of you who would like to trace my progress today you have to follow Hwy 2 from Dégelis to St Leonard then, in the following order, follow 105, 107, 570, 104, 616, Rocky Rock Road, 105, 102, 7, 100, and finally Manawagonish Road. There is very little traffic on these back roads that meander through some beautiful countryside, often along rivers and streams, and pass fields of potatoes, corn and other crops.
Here's a small potato field and some impressive looking clouds.
And here's a view from a high point on Route 104 between Coldstream and Cloverdale.
This is what a back road looks like. If you wait a while, maybe another vehicle will come by; meanwhile you can admire the wild flowers on the shoulders and in the ditches.
Dinner this evening was at a very good sushi restaurant on King Street in Saint John. I walked around for a while and then took a taxi back to the motel. Tomorrow it's early to rise to get to the ferry that will take me across the Bay of Fundy to Digby Nova Scotia.
Some pretty lonely but decent roads out there to drive from Digby across to Halifax if you want to avoid the main ones including TCH.
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