One Final Entry

Our final full day outside of St. John's was a bit of a re-cap, and a gift to ourselves. The day dawned cold and cloudy, with serious threat of rain. So we decided to run into St. John's briefly, and leave the bike at Canary Cycle to be boxed for the trip home. A miserable trip, weather misty and grey. But, with that done, and an obligatory visit once more to Rocket, we were off for our reward. We went back to Dildo, to the "Inn by the Bay", with Coleen and Karen, and Tammy to welcome us. It was indeed a pleasure to be back, and we had wonderful rooms in the place, and wonderful weather by which to enjoy it.

















The afternoon was spent just walking to the post office, sitting on the deck, talking and lounging. After another meal at the "Dildo Dory", where fish&chips, and chowder was on the menu, we returned to our rooms and settled in to our beds for a last sleep in the relative peace and quiet of Dildo. We knew it would be hard to leave.

But leave we did. The next day was clear and cool. We were off by about eleven, drove to St. John's, and settled into our room (they had it ready for us), returned Jenny the van and negotiated with the rental place to get another vehicle. We had booked a Chevy Impala because of it's space for luggage, but they offered us a Ford Explorer with even more room. We took it, unsure of how we would negotiate this mammoth vehicle through the streets of the city. But it simplified some things: we could put both bikes into it for the trip to the airport, and thus do it in one trip.

How to spend the final evening. Barry and I were hungry, Darlene not so much. So Barry and I went out to "Oliver's" for a fine meal, and Darlene joined us for part of it. Then back to the hotel and a sleep in a hotel room. We missed Dildo already.

The next day went easily. Getting everything into the massive vehicle was not difficult; negotiating it out of the parking place and onto the road was tough, but we got it done eventually. And then we were off, stopping only to put lots of gas into this thing.

And so we finished off, flying our way to Halifax, and then to Hamilton, where Nancy was waiting for Barry, and our arranged taxi drive was not waiting for us. We got another taxi, and we were home. A very nice trip, in a wonderful place: we will go back, sometime!

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Location:Sydenham St,Dundas,Canada