This morning, we woke up to ... wait for it ... a forecast for more rain!! Yes, today would be another test of our rain gear. After breakfast, we rode out from Tatamagouche and left Nova Scotia under gloomy skies. As we rode, the skies got darker. We debated pulling over to put on our rain gear, but decided to wait until we got into Moncton, New Brunswick. In Moncton we paid a brief visit to Atlantic Motoplex, the only Ducati dealer in the Atlantic provinces. The store was huge! We talked briefly to a salesperson who used to live in Toronto (coincidence or what?); he was very pleasant. We stopped off for a hot caffeinated beverage at Tim Hortons before hitting the road again. I swear, the dude who served us looked like he was 10 years old. Unreal. After Matt finished his coffee, we put on our rain gear and headed out once more. What a crazy ride. It poured. When we didn't get buckets of rain from above, we got soaked by walls of water from the opposite lanes of highway traffic.
And then it finally happened. I'm going to blame it on fatigue from riding in the rain. I have a fresh scratch on my brand new clutch lever from laying it down pulling up to the pump at our next gas station stop. =( Oh well.
We missed a turn on our final leg of our journey to Dalhousie, New Brunswick. To get us back on track, our GPS rerouted us along a road that suddenly became unpaved. That unpaved stretch was several kilometres in length. And covered in mud. Let's just say that had to be the longest and most tense stretch of road in my life. But we both made it, whew.
Needless to say, we have very few photos for today.
Day 8 Route:
Atlantic Motoplex:
