Day 7: Choo choo!

Our first event of the day was having a private tour of the Glenora Distillery at 9am.  Ok, it was only a private tour because no one else was in our group.  There's nothing like having a sample of 10 year old whisky at 9am. ;)  After the tour, we loaded up our bikes and rode out of Cape Breton and stopped in Antigonish for lunch.   At our first gas stop after lunch, we met a couple who were riding two-up on a bike with foreign plates.  It turns out they were from Belgium!  They had shipped their bike to Halifax and were touring the Maritimes for 1 month.  They put us to shame with the tiny amount of luggage they were carrying.  Here we were with two fully loaded bikes and we're only travelling for 12 days.  They were travelling for 1 month, two-up, with about half the amount of stuff.  Wow.  Talk about seasoned pros.

So where are we staying tonight?  We're in Tatamagouche at the Train Station Inn.  How unique is that!  Our room is a converted train car!  It turns out we have one of the nicest cars.  We have the only one with a full tub.  All the others only have showers.  What luxury! 

It's late and we're planning an early start in the morning.  The photos for the day will be in a follow up post.  Tomorrow we'll be leaving Nova Scotia.  Bye bye, Nova Scotia.  There are lots of things that we didn't get to see or do.  We'll be back!

Update on Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 9:49PM by Matt

Day 7 route:

Glenora Distillery Stills:

Inside our "room" at the Train Station Inn:

Train Station Inn rail cars:

Inside the "lounge" car:

Comments

[Jason]

Sounds like you're having a great time!