Well we left Digby this morning and caught the ferry for 8:00 a.m, on the loading dock we met a couple of guys originally from Cuba, we made some small talk about what each has done and had a good time chatting up. Anyways we went on the ferry to load. Up on the deck we had breakfast, not a bad deal for 4.50. We finished up and went to the lounge to have a seat and ran into the men we had met on the loading dock, they invited us to join them and their wives and children, we really enjoyed talking to these kind souls, made an instant connection with Joe, Tony and Julia, Tonys wife was pretty tired and we felt we may be intruding but they would not have us take our leave and continued to chat and make us feel very welcome in their families, there is a history for these guys that I would love to tell but I think it is not my place to tell their stories about coming to live in Canada,'but I will say I have a tremendous amount of respect for them and their families. We vowed to keep in touch and exchanged e-mails. I invited them to come to Yarker for a visit and a tour of our roads out north. We felt that they were sincere people and hope to make good friends with them, they also asked us to come and visit them in Mississauga. We felt an instant bond to them and their families. If Joe and Tony, or Tonys wife or Julia read this which I hope you do, you people are what bikers are really about. We hope to see you and your family's again.Tony I must apologize to your wife, her name has slipped our minds but she is a sweetheart like your kids. Oh by the way Joe and Tony are brothers. After we said our goodbyes and they left to make Sherbrooke , we headed back down to maine to start poking our way home,'today was the first day we had rain bad enough to don the rain suits, they worked pretty good for the most but like air water will find it's way in and both of us got wet, our phone is now going to have to dry off as it is not working due to the water. We came through Calias and continued on to Lincoln and got a room at the Lincoln motel. Did laundry and then went for dinner, we have put over 4000 kilometers on the bike so far with some pretty good roads ahead of us and look forward to getting home. But we are not looking forward to end our vacation with all the kind people we have met. When we did get to St John NB we were stopping at a Timmies and met a man in the parking lot, he started talking about his days on his bikes and as the conversation went on found out he was an actor and writer from Vancouver and was home now, turns out he wrote a book on short stories of riding , 7 in all. His name was Cookster and was a real nice fella. His books are on Amazon.com/books and sounds like a good read. Cookster , it was a real pleasure, hope to hear from you in the future.
