Day 100: Too Tired to Celebrate

Ina's in Loring to Eugene, Connie & Kendra's in Nairn Centre, Sudbury

After having the deepest, 12 hour sleep, Katie and I awoke to Lux snorting and spinning in circles on the high line. His eyes were focused on something in the distance. We couldn't see anything, and neither could Joseph who was out there trying to calm him down. There must have been a moose or bear, but nothing came of it.

We weren't sure when Dave was coming with the trailer, but we figured we would take our time getting up. Until Joseph told us we should probably get dressed. "Why?" we grumpily asked? "well, a trailer just pulled in to the driveway" Joseph said in a passive aggressive tone. That got us up in a second!

We hopped out of the tent and sure enough it was Dave with the trailer. I guess he tried calling to let us know he was coming but we had to stand in a certain spot to get service. All was fine and he wasn't in a rush. I packed up the tent while Katie started loading the horses. Ora always goes first and although she's not scared, she always puts up a 5 minute stubborn fight, even though she knows her desire for food will win every time.

Katie then started the Lux loading process. She tried for 10 minutes, making him back up, go in circles, the whole nine yards. Once I was finished packing our stuff, I came to help. We tried the thing that worked last time, twisting his chestnuts so he lifts up his foot. Essentially moving each foot until all 4 feet are on the trailer. He got half way, then backed off, and we repeated that about 4 times.

Finally, we had him lined up again with his front two feet on the ramp. With Josephs help, we worked as a team and got him on! I think it took about 30 minutes. And 30 minutes after that we hit the road.

A 2 hour drive from Port Loring to Sudbury. We kept saying how happy we were to be in a car and not riding on either the 522 or highway 69. It would have been absolutely miserable. As much as it feels kind of shitty to skip that section, it would have felt shittier to walk it. The four of us being crammed into the trucks cab may have been uncomfortable but it was an uncomfortableness that was only going to last two hours - nothing compared to the amount of discomfort we would've suffered over a good two-week haul down those roads.

So here we are, on day 100, sitting in the cab of a truck with yet another kind stranger. Dave had many great stories about biking from Ontario out of Newfoundland and also about living out in the woods for 10 years with no running water or electricity. The variety of Canadians we meet is always remarkable. We safely made it to the Mirons, where Corrie, Kendra and Eugenne warmly greeted us. Kendra is Connie and Euqenes daughter, and Corrie is their neighbour, Kendras best friend. Corrie also keeps her horse with the Mirons.

First thing as always was to get the horses settled. We then said our many thanks and goodbyes to Dave, who drove a total of 6 hours! I for one dislike long car rides, so for him to trailer us just out of sheer goodwill, was so appreciated. He would't even take the gas money we offered.

The rest of the day we layed in bed watching binge watching Orange is The New Black and got to know our hosts. (We still have yet to meet Connie but we will on sunday!) We also did a live stream on Youtube so we could quickly get everyone caught up with what was happening, and also filmed our Day 100 video. Thats about all we did to celebrate. Kind of lame, but also we're all kinds of tired and had a huge lack of motivation to celebrate in any way shape or form.