After attending Toronto Councillor Lily Cheng’s Community Ride, I drove us to Hillsburgh, where we are going to be staying for a week to look after Cindy‘s sister’s pets, while they are away. We arrived shortly before dinner, had an enjoyable meal, and enjoyed the hot tub before bed.
It’s Barry first time staying in the area so he planned our first couple of rides to cover places he hadn’t been before.
We had a lazy Sunday morning, and set off on our bikes just after noon.
The foliage is mostly green, but there are a few trees that have begun to turn.
The ride was rolling one.
I’ve written about Statshunters.com before. I use it to create a personal heat map of all the places I have ridden my bike since 2013, when I started recording my rides, and also to see what tiles I have ridden my bike through. The tiles divide the world into a grid of 16,384 by 16,384 squares, each one is about 2 km wide. It’s a fun pursuit to try to visit as many tiles as you can using only human power.
Barry also collect tiles, so this was an opportunity for him to collect some in this area, which is quite a distance from where he lives. Cindy and I already had these tiles because we spent three days riding around this area a year ago. We didn’t have any particular stops planned, as the purpose of the ride was to collect tiles.
We saw some lovely pastoral scenes.
The ride was about half on paved roads, and half on gravel.
Cindy and I stopped by an apple tree that had dropped a lot of apples. Some of them had rotten spots or worms, but plenty were in good shape. We tried them and they were quite sweet.
There was a self serve pumpkin store on one of the farms we passed.
Barry tried to get his drone to follow us while we rode up one of the gravel roads, but for some reason it only hovered in place. It is visible in the picture above his head. Perhaps he’ll get a video on one of our future rides.
We saw a few country churches and century homes.
Most of the gravel roads were in the latter half of the route including this last one which was so steep, it was difficult not to spin our rear wheels on it, but we all made it.
Dinner was stuffed peppers that I picked up at Costco and some salads that we made. I forgot to take a picture.
This is Rusty, one of the cats that we are looking after.
After dinner, we had a soak in the hot tub before bed. It was a relaxing way to end a relaxing day.
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