We had a nice celebratory dinner at the Fairmont Montebello last night and recalled all the parts of each day of riding and rest over the past 28 days. This afternoon, arriving in Ottawa was an emotional moment. Our first glimpse was the city and Parliament from Québec side. We stopped to see the CMC building, and had to ride on to meet our deadline at Phat Moose Cycles. A Government information clerk took our photo just inside the street gates of Parliament, but we did not go in further as B was concerned that we had bear spray that the canine unit might respond to. Our trip today started out on the nice road from Montebello, on which we passed the 2,000Kms mark (we acknowledged it with a text of "m&w's")! There were about 5Ks of rough road and tough drivers coming into Gatineau, and then we joined with bike trails almost all the rest of the way to Phat Moose, which is 2 blocks off the Rideau Canal. The folks at Phat Moose are packing our bikes and sending them ground to home, as we didn't wish to subject the bikes to the multiple transitions on our way from Ottawa to St. John's & the hotel for the wedding and then back to airport and on to Victoria via a pair of flights. Our flight to St. John's leaves in a couple of hours so we have time for this last post of our bicycle trip from St. John's Newfoundland to Ottawa Ontario in 22 days of bicycling 2,057Kms and 6 days of relaxation and exploration (Antigonish, Charlottetown, Miramichi, Campbellton, Rivière-du-Loup, & Québec). Wow!

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