We left this morning at 6:00 to try to get a jump on the heat. Our route at one point was blocked due to road construction, a crew was working on concrete forms on an overpass, but they let us wheel our bikes through their work area.We stopped in Memphis for breakfast about 8:00. When we reached St Clair we were able to take a bike path to Marine City and the Blue Water Ferry. Blue Water is a good name, the St Clair river is the most azure color of blue I’ve ever seen The ferry ride to Canada is just $1.00 for bicyclists. Once in Canada it wasn’t too far to Wallaceburg. Wallaceburg has a mystery from the 1840’s called the Baldoon mystery. Apparently a man named McDonald had some prime land apparently coveted by an old woman. When he refused to sell his property to her strange things began happening; timbers in the barn would fall for no apparent reason, stones and bullets would fly through windows at all hours until every window was broken and boarded up, fires would start spontaneously. Mr McDonald consulted a stone reader who told him that if he shot the strange black goose that was seen near his property that his troubles would then be over. he shot the black goose in the wing, and next time he saw the old woman she had a broken arm, and he never had trouble again. There is a statue of the black goose in town.
Good thing we finished riding early, it’s oppressively hot, humid, and thunderstorms are rolling through.
Greg