Saturday August 15 Gushue Pond to St-John’s 85 km (Total: 8011 km)

We got up around 7:30, but no one was in a rush to leave. It was our last day on the road and we only had a short distance to go to St John’s. Breakfast consisted of cereal with milk and coffee, tea, and/or hot chocolate. The tents and the bags that had been left outside were covered in slug slime. There were slime trails on every side of the tent. The wind had died down and the sky was blue. Not a cloud in sight. What a way to finish a long ride! We pedalled without haste to St John’s. When we arrived at Mile Zero, we met Scott and Debbie who filmed our finish. They had also brought champagne to celebrate our friends’ accomplishment. We went to Sundance, a restaurant nearby, for a last super-breakfast. And it was really super. After our sausages, ham, bacon, potatoes, eggs, toasts, and steaks, accompanied by a few glasses of various drinks, all the cyclists agreed that this was the first breakfast to really fill us. We left our bags in Scott and Debbie’s car and left for Signal Hill. It was one of the hardest climbs of the whole trip. After admiring the panoramic view of the city and learning the story of Marconi’s first transatlantic wireless signal, we started an epic descent towards the city. The steep grade allowed us to accelerate to 60 km/h in a second and a half or two seconds. It was very fun. We then went to pick up our luggage at Scott and Debbie’s hotel, said goodbye to our Ontario friends, and went to Pippy Park, the municipal campground, to rest at the end of our trip, while waiting for the boat that will take us one step closer to home…