Have you ever seen the rain?

Song lyrics are very useful tools when trying to decide on a theme for the daily blog...this one seemed appropriate.

What I assumed had been Mother Nature's prediction actually turned out to be more of a "gift". That's what we called it yesterday morning as we were up early, packing up the camp site in preparation for heading back to NB....in the rain.

Camp came down pretty quick as we prepared ourselves the night before in the event it was raining. We headed out for breakfast at Denny's, checked the forecast and the map and found the quickest route with the least amount of traffic. Riding wasn't bad given the amount of rain. We took our time passing a lot of other bikes either stopped at road stops or heading the other way. We came through customs at the old St. Stephen border crossing quickly thanks to a very nice border guard and headed to Reta and Alberts for the night at their camp.

We arrived around 3 pm. Rain was heavier on the Canadian side and as we pulled into Reta and Albert's garage (Albert had the door open for us, bless his great big heart), the skies opened up. It rained so hard you couldn't see across the lake. We peeled off our rain gear and left them hanging in the garage and peeled the other layers off in the camp. We weren't here more than an hour and a half and their neighbour Brian stopped by to tell us the road was washed out at the top. A couple of culverts couldn't handle the rain. Not long after that we started getting reports about flooding in St. Stephen - downtown, Irving, traffic circle...the same route we had travelled earlier in the afternoon.

We had a great afternoon with drinks and laughter...hot home cooked meal, watching the rain across the lake (and sometimes we couldn't see it at all), entertained constantly by the huge family of hummingbirds dancing outside the window, vying for their spots on the feeders.

 

As we started out, we came upon the engineers, fixing the road. Tucker, the road supervisor was giving us updates........

 

Tucker - Top Dog & Supervisor

 

Then we realized what was taking so long.....he was sleeping on the job!

 

 

Thanks Reta and Albert for a great end to a fabulous holiday!

 

Perfect Hosts xoxo

 

Someone told me long ago

There's a calm before the storm,

I know 

It's been comin for some time.

 

Yes John, we are back to work on Monday.....but until then......the road at the top is fixed up and we are Free to Just Ride!

 

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