The start of Le Tour du Geezers is an uneventful and quick car drive of 400 miles. The skies clear as we traverse the Canadian border and the final 50 miles is through bucolic hay and corn fields. The rear of a caboose at the Railway Museum of Eastern Ontario is where I will be snoring tonight with Ted at the opposite end. It’s a quaint museum with lots of nooks and crannies to explore.
As might be expected, there are many different train cars to see: more cabooses, a dining car, an orange plow engine, freight cars, and passenger cars as well as a dental car and a black Cadillac on train wheels.
This is a great way to start our trip on the Ottawa River Valley Trail (ORVT) where we will hop on our bikes tomorrow at Smith’s Falls and pedaling all the way to Deep River and back with a side trip on the K&P trial to Calabogie for lunch. In total, it should be about 270 miles (or 434 kilometers) over 6 1/2 days on our bikes.
This is our ninth trip in so many years and I am amazed that we can continue to keep doing it, taking everything with us for each excursion. Training for these journeys, I sometimes wonder to myself, ‘why am I doing this?’ But now as I type this looking toward a set of tracks extending out in the distance through a patch of wildflowers as the sun reflects on glass insulators resting on old telegraph poles, the answer is obvious.
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Loved the pictures, the caboose looks comfy and nicely decorated. Olivia read the map and Charlotte read all out loud. Have fun today hope it stays sunny.