Lac Morency – Travel Day

Cindy has a time share that she needed to use, and given the pandemic she did not want to travel to the US, so she looked for a cycling friendly place in Canada, and invited me to join her at the Auberge du Lac Morency north of Montreal in the Laurentians. It is only 8km from the P’Tit Train du Nord, a 235km bike route that runs from Montreal to Mont-Laurier.

My cat Oreo was very interested in my suitcase. Because we were driving and doing day trips, I didn’t have to be careful about how much I took with me. So I brought the giant pink suitcase for which I have been endlessly mocked for taking on my first cycling trip to Ottawa in 2017. However, its handy because everything fits in the one bag and it has wheels. Additionally, I had two coolers, as did Cindy, since we will make most of our meals.

There was a bit of traffic at 409/401 this morning and then some skirting Montreal. We had a bathroom stop at Odessa ONRoute, our packed lunch in the parking lot at Mallorytown ONRoute, and coffee just after crossing into Quebec at a Couche-Tard service station. I drove from the bathroom break to the coffee break. It was 8 hours from my house to registration at the auberge.

We saw an elevated section of the Montreal REM under construction. It is a regional transit network of 67km that will be opening in stages from 2021 to 2023. They have a giant elevated guideway building machine that seems to be similar to a video of a bridge building machine in China that I saw a few years ago. I got quite excited when I saw it.

This one lane bridge just before Saint-Sauveur was controlled by a stop sign at each end and a directive that cars take turns.

There was an interesting looking plaza across the road from where we got gas in Saint-Sauveur.

We also passed the P’Tit Train du Nord in Saint-Sauveur. I believe most, if not all, of the path is paved.

We will be doing daily trips from the auberge, a cute two story row house with living room and kitchen on the main floor and bedroom and bathroom on the second floor.

The view from our front door is lovely.

The restaurant at the auberge is closed Tuesday and Wednesday so we made a bean salsa and omelettes for dinner.


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