Day one was a trial by water.  Yes, we were totally soaked.  I shudder to think how much worse it would have been if we didn't have rain gear ... eww eww eww!!  When we finally hit some rain, we pulled over and put on our rain gear and put the storm covers over our bags. 

So what did we learn today?  The Scala communicators held up despite the crazy downpour.  The storm covers for our luggage really do work ... unless they are installed incorrectly and then start collecting water inside of them.  Our waterproof gloves were soggy messes.  The Frog Togg rain jacket and pants were pretty easy to get into.  We were doing pretty good until it was raining so hard that the rain started running down our necks.  By the time we arrived in Gananoque, our shirts were soaked from the neck down to the waist.  You can imagine how torturous it was to feel the wetness creeping down, ever so slowly.  And lastly our boots eventually became little wave pools, sloshing around with every movement of the boot (yes, shifting made the water move out of the toe of the boot towards the heel). 

Miraculously, it was dry in Gananoque when we arrived.  But then I got bitten by two mosquitoes as soon as we pulled into the HoJo's parking lot and I finally took off my helmet.  Yup, I swelled up immediately.  Blood sucking mosquitoes!  I got nailed in the forehead and my right ear. =(  Good thing I brought allergy medication. 

Back to quality time with the hair dryer and then off to bed!