Maybe you love cheese cake and at some point you find yourself in a cheese cake cafe. What are you going to do? Pretty obvious I would think. You dig in and eat as much of it as you can. So, what if you're a road junkie and you find yourself staring at the motherlode fix. You can't be blamed for making it the day's main event. So it came to happen.
Everybody out here and throughout the country for that matter talks about the Cabot Trail. "Oh, you gotta ride the Trail. And make sure you do it counter-clockwise." How many times had I heard this refrain. This ride had been built up to a point where I was almost expecting to be disappointed. I wasn't.
On this sunny day, the Cabot Trail opened its door and we rolled right in. I meandered around the lazy turns for the first hour and from Ingonish on, it was spectacular. It continued on over the north around Aspy Bay all the way into the west coastline at Pleasant Bay. Cheticamp on the west side has an Acadian flair and lunch was all about a bowl of chowder at Le Gabriel restaurant. Delicious. The day wound up on back roads that eventually led me back to Sydney to spend the evening once again. The Cabot Trail doesn't disappoint, no matter which direction you take it. This fix should last me a while.
The plan for tomorrow is to go to the Louisbourg Fortress before I leave Cape Breton. Weather looks iffy so I'll wait and see what develops.
Hey, I told you she was a beauty. How about them curves? It's a good thing your on a bike because you probably would of stopped and bought a few of them small wooden boats they sell along the road. The scenery is always nicer when the weather is on your side eh? Hope your taking lots of pictures, then again pictures never do it justice. Soak it up.
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Heh Bob, Being the engineer you are and having the scientific mind you have, how about doing it clockwise as well? Just for the fun/hell of it !! Then do it over a few times ...to validate your finding ;ob
ReplyDeleteNice to see your enjoying your trip,
Denis