oh dear, not much of an update.. I finished! Apparently this year, (and also the last) was the best for going east to west. The prevailing westerlys never actually went east at all. I had shocking headwinds across the whole prairie, truly awful. But the rest was super cool.

To anyone reading this, if you have no qualms about 'not doing the whole thing' when you get to calgary or edmonton, (the beginning of the prairie if you start in the west), fly at least to winnipeg, better still fly to montreal, ontario is pretty but once youve seen one lake and forest in the middle of nowhere youve seen them all, and ontario goes on for ages.... St laurent gulf in quebec however is worth cycling around a million times; gorgeous, the best thing ever, probably better than the mountains. nova scotia and NL were beautiful as well, and new brunswick was like a slightly more (t/l)ame ontario.

if i ever return i will try and do the gaspe penisula loop, then get a ferry over to tadoussac north shore quebec on Rte138 get the 3 day ferry up to the northern penisula of NL go all the way down NL to st johns then to argentia, then do a leisurey cycle around cape breton and then back to halifax, nova scotia.

laterz