Day 77, Sunday, August 10, Pokiok, NB, 118 km

We started our new routine today of a half-hour later start as it is dark at 6 a.m. with the time zone change that happened at the border.

We continued on Hwy #105 south to Florenceville, the French Fry Capital of the World, which has a large McCain's factory and the Potato World Museum. Obviously, we passed numerous potato fields. We crossed the St. John River on #130 heading south.

At 40 km into the day's ride we entered the village of Hartland, home of the longest covered bridge in the world (1282 feet). We looked down the length of it but didn't venture in as it was narrow and dark inside!

We continued on #105, now on the other side of the river, and the hills began! But we can recommend this road as we had it to ourselves; all the through traffic goes on the new Trans-Canada. At 63 km we came to Woodstock, a large center with a fading downtown area but with new box stores out by the new highway.

Coming out of Woodstock we decided to take the new highway #2. It is a very comfortable ride, road-surface wise with a huge shoulder but has heavy traffic. We wondered about the area having 3 perfectly good roads servicing essentially the same route! At exit #212 it was pointed out to me that leaving at exit #231 meant that we had 19 more kilometres to ride....quite a change from the planned length of ride. We were exhausted riders who came into the lovely View campground at Pokiok.

Again, we noticed the lack of tourists during the high season for travelling....lousy weather and high gas prices seem to be the cause.