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Home. 4124 miles.

The Dome of Hate held well today. Pouring rain on east bound 90. West bound, our side, was dry.

Fried pastry dough, kinda like a donut with apple filling. They are amazing. I get them every time I come up here. I drove right into Montreal during rush hour to get this one. They are that good.

They were closed man. We were very sad.

Just past Montreal. Drop into NY tomorrow.

Slab across NS and part of NB. No scenery. My steak sucked so no pics. Parked in Fredericton NB. Gonna drop back into the states just past Montreal, by Watertown NY.

Ferry ride is over. Parked in North Sydney NS tonight. I have come to realize that as the author of this thread I have a responsibility to meet the desires of the reading audience. So here are some scenery shots from the ferry ride.

Back at Port Aux Basques. Grabbing the ferry back to Nova Scotia tomorrow. Sorry Dan, no food pictures today.

Pic from the whale trip and St. johns. St. Johns is a great town. They have a 10 block long party street. Right by our hotel. Family friendly party. Restaurants, bars, tons of shops. Great time. I did get a shot of the whale and a crappy video. It was when we were still far away. As we got close I stopped taking any.

Whale hunting was epic! Two schools of dolphins, and we found mother and calf hump back whales!! Mom did multiple full vertical launches, totally out of the water. She was huge! Tons of tail flips. No pics, too busy living the moment. It was amazing.

And pretty soon, there will be moose coming out of my ass.

One less for bowdog to shoot, that is for sure.

Cod tongues and a moose burger for dinner.

Parked for the night in St. John NL. Damn that was a long ass ride. Non stop amazing scenery, fucking moose everywhere. No pics, couldn't do the scenery justice. Tomorrow we hop on a boat early to go whale hunting.

Oh, and no matter what they say, the wireless Internet does not work at sea. It's always broke I was told. And it was a very calm ride. Honestly we probably didn't need to tie the bikes down.

I am assuming you are doing the North Sydney to Aux Port Basque run. Try and get the midnight to 7 am ferry and get a cabin and sleep. If you don't you end up spending the night before nearby, ride the noon to 6 pm and basically drive to another hotel. The night run seems to sell out pretty far in advance so plan ahead. If you are doing North Sydney to St Johns that is 16 hours, so you damn well better get a cabin. We had to take the noon run. Still got a cabin. Well worth it, you can get away from everyone and have at sea sex. Food and whatnot is actually pretty good. There is a bar too. You will be tempted to get there early. Don't bother. Loading won't start until 90 minutes before departure. They want you there 2 hours ahead, so 2 hours and 1 minute is more than enough. Lots of people came well after the 2 hour warning. All in all, it was a very enjoyable time except tying down the bike. Their straps blew dead goats. The ratchets were corroded with salt and you had to fight them. Plus I had to do it twice, old French dude in front of me had no idea what he was doing. There are moose everywhere you look.

Ferry ride is done. Parked nearby at our hotel. Canada is weird. Newfoundland has a 30 minute time zone offset. As usual, cagers in the way getting off the ferry.

Boarding in a couple of hours.

Lot of Harleys at the hotel tonight.

Foggy, very cool and damp slab ride to northern NS. We are parked for the night right next to where we grab the ferry in the morning. Wife was very uncool and would not let me repel off the 12th floor of yesterdays hotel.

FTFY

Shaved prime rib on a Yorkshire puff.