• Not fixed. I dont think I had ever even ridden fixed at that point.

    People imagine Canada to be this very sparsely populated area but it's not so sparse that we didn't end up in or near a village or small town by the end of the day. More often we would ride through a couple of places, which was good for coffee stops and picking up dinner before the last leg. The only time that we didn't was when we tackled the Verendrye, a large national park in Quebec. We rode 100 miles from Val d'Or into the middle, where we stopped at a campsite and then another 100 miles out the other side, but there were plenty of people on the road and about 20 people at the campsite.

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