Cathcart Park campground to the Pinery Provincial Park , Ontario. 62.1 miles

I met my campground neighbor in the morning. He was from Guelph, Ontario and he was surprised when I said I was headed there. And was even more surprised when I told him I was going there to visit a bakery. He told me that he was camped here, right next to the Saint Clair River because he was a ship watcher and plans much of his vacation time around watching ships.

Just before I left, he gave me an apple and a peach! The peach was just ripe and was something that a person on a bike tour doesn’t get to enjoy too often because it is not easy to transport a ripe peach on a bicycle. It was a magnificent treat.

I was trying to put my finger on what the differences were since I crossed into Canada. I noticed Canadian road signs were maybe more graphic than American road signs. Could it be because it has more than one national language?

I did notice the fire hydrants looked jaunty and were freshly painted.

Dollar stores morphed into Dollarama stores.

I think I only saw one trump flag in Canada but I saw a fair number of these signs.

I stopped at a coffee shop in Sarnia. While I was locking up my bike, someone told me I shouldn’t be flying my American flag here. I told them I love my country and it needed my support more than ever at this time.

After coffee and 2nd breakfast, I walked down the street to see if I could pick up a multi USB charging block to help me get all my electronics charged at once. I came upon a man in an electric wheelchair that was stuck on the sidewalk in freshly laid soft asphalt. I asked if I could help. The woman he was with and I tried to lift while he was hitting the gas. I never realized how heavy an electric wheelchair is, there was no way we were going to move it alone. I walked back down the street and asked some folks if they could help. In less than 3 minutes there must of been 10-12 people there helping and we got him out. I heard people saying they had contacted the town hall about the problem and when I was walking back to my bike later I noticed someone had moved the construction barrels to stop someone else from getting stuck and they moved some steel plates to make it possible for a wheelchair to navigate the sidewalk.

This all reinforced my belief that Canadians are good folks.

I was curious about the state of cannabis legalization in Canada so I stopped and had a conversation with Jared in front of Blazing Budz.

I got to The Pinery provincial Park , set up camp and went for a last Great Lake swim (of the tour) in Lake Huron.

When I got back to my campsite it was pretty late and I had some fresh corn I had picked up at a roadside farm. I was thinking I would roast the corn over a fire but I didn’t have any wood and there was a no wood collection policy. I noticed the campsite next to me had a nice fire going so I thought maybe they wouldn’t mind if I roasted my corn on their fire. Looking back on it, it was rather impolite of me to ask. And now I can’t recall the wonderful couple’s names but they told me they would roast the corn for me. Later I talked with one of them about my tour and his home country of Ukraine. He told me when he was growing up in Ukraine he once went on a bike tour with a group of youths.

I was glad he found refuge in Canada but I wished his home country was not at war.