Day 47: White Lake to Wawa 124km

I feel that the big ride yesterday hit us a little harder than we expected today. Being cycling beasts and all you don't expect to feel the effects. For me it was a mental battle today as I just did not want to ride a bike or even see a bike.
The day got off to a slow start due to our cooler bag with all our food going walkabout during the night. To keep ourselves safe from bears and various wildlife at night we have to keep the food out of the way of the tent. Often we attach it to a rope and put it up a tree and sometimes we put it in the washrooms. We had left it in the washrooms over night and in the morning it was nowhere to be seen. This made us set off later than planned and annoyed us as we need food to cycle. To cut a long story short a woman had noticed it and looked through it and found Agnes' painkillers in it and decided that for the safety of children it would be best to hand it in. When you don't have kids or aren't around kids you forget about things like this but we fully understand why she did. The unfortunate thing was that the office was 4km from the campsite on the way back to the highway.
After this grumpy start we ended having a cracking day. Just after breakfast part 2 we met a cyclist on the road. His name is Matt and he is cycling from Fernie in BC to his home in Montreal. He teamed up with us for the remaining 90km. It was strange cycling with another person but we all had a good ride and each took a turn in leading. We also met another cyclist going the other way at a lake just off the highway. He was a from France and his plan is to cycle across to BC and work for a couple of months then fly out to Australia and carry on cycling, a very intense guy.
When we finally arrived in Wawa we met another 2 cyclists as it was just the day for it. The two guys we met this time were very different from your serious cyclists, which was a breath of fresh air. Their names are Matt and Will. Will is cycling across the country the other way to us and Matt joined him in Kingston, Ontario and is tagging along until Winnipeg. Will is doing the ride for MS and has raised a lot of money along the way, which I admire. We wish now that we had got something like that sorted but what the hey. The two of them had huge trailers that they were pulling and Matt had a 100 dollar bike, which was working just as well as all of our expensive bikes. When we first met them outside Tim Horton's they were chilling out smoking and drinking. they say their not prepared to give up their lifestyles. They are almost halfway across Canada so they obviously don't need to. Also they only do around 60km a day.
Anyway we all teamed up for the night and drank plenty of beers and eat a few pizzas. Will and Matt had a hotel room and they let the three of us pile in with them. It was a small room so we all squashed up and found spaces on the floor. That concludes a different day in the world of cycling across Canada. It was really good to meet up with some fellow cyclists who were our age and not too serious.