Day 14: Parlee Beach to PEI

Hello from PEI National Park - Stanhope! The Stanhope part is very important as it's also where Sami and Billy (friends from home) happened to be! They came over to the campground and we went to the beach for a great (but a bit cold) swim in the ocean and then visit around the fire:)

Our ride today was scheduled to be 130 km all the way to the campground, but due to a slightly inflamed achilles tendon, we modified the route to 102 km. Tomorrow we'll get dropped back off where we stopped and continue along our shortened route through PEI to the ferry in Wood Islands. We may also split our last day into 2 depending on how everything feels, so we have only 2 (or 3) days left of this adventure!!!

Even though we did a modifed the route, we still finished riding through New Brunswick, met our 'sag wagon' at the Confederation bridge so we could cross it with them, realized that PEI is in no way flat and actually has an abundance of hills, and found our Mom sitting by the side of the road in a chair with a drink cooler and a red and white umbrella at our end location for the day. Pete and Dad had left here there to meet us while they dashed ahead to the campground to get a site. We had to wait about 30 minutes for the van to come back to pick us up and we used this time to enjoy a cold one from the cooler...it was pretty amusing:)

I find it a bit hard to believe we've biked to PEI from Ottawa and we're not done yet!

Sarah

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