Day 40: Fort Frances to Atikokan 145km

Due to arriving late in Fort Frances we had to do our laundry and pick up spare inner tubes in the morning so we got another late start. I am a fan of late starts as I get an extra couple of hours beauty sleep. The weather was bad today and it was a long wet ride to Mine Centre which was our only choice of stop today 65km into the day. It is much easier to get the bulk of the day done before the break as it makes it mentally hard to get going when you no you have more to do than you have just done. At Mine Centre there was a gas/convenience store and nothing else. Inside though the guy had a coffee bar set up and we picked out what we wanted for lunch and used the microwave to heat it up. It doesn't sound great but this kind of thing just makes the day. We had chili and bread with plenty of coffee to get us pumped up for the rest of the ride. The rest of the day was very hard as the land is very bumpy now and time seems to go so slowly. I think Agnes is enjoying riding through northern Ontario a lot more than I am. It just seems that it takes such a long time to get anywhere, but I think I will get used to it once the memories of flying through Manitoba wear off.
The last 20km as usual were a killer but we made it. We went into the visitor info centre and met a nice lady called Tamara who was very helpful. Just as we were about to leave the rain came down . As the campsite was off the highway and a detour we would have to come back to the info centre in the morning to carry on anyway Tamara gave us a ride in her truck to the campsite. It is meeting kind people like Tamara that really make this a special trip.
As we had bought lunch at the gas store we had our sandwiches for dinner and went straight to bed.