111 Degrees?!?!?!(Or: July in Nova Scotia

July 17-23, 1999

The

Lighthouse

Tour

225Riders

• Get to Bangor!• Shuttle service from Bangor to Bar Harbor• Campsite at College of the Atlantic• Pick up and/or reassemble bikes• Find lost luggage• Eat! Celebrate Steve’s birthday!

Friday July 16RDU/ATL/BOS to Bangor/Bar Harbor, ME

Day 1: Bar Harbor to Yarmouth . . .

Bar Harbor, ME

. . . Via the Cat

The Tarwheels Crew: Carol, Debbie, Libby, Lynn, Paul, Sarah, Steve, and Tom

Day 1: Bar Harbor to Yarmouth

Yarmouth Architecture

• Stained glass• Widow’s walks• Turrets• Airlocks

Day 1: Bar Harbor to Yarmouth

Sarah, Tom,and Carolinvestigatethe Yarmouthlighthouse(and scenicsurroundings)

Day 1: Bar Harbor to Yarmouth

Paul andLynn and more water

Day 1: Bar Harbor to Yarmouth

Our Campsite Patio

Day 1: Bar Harbor to Yarmouth

Day 2: Yarmouth to Digby(68.5 miles)

The first day of real riding

Feed us and we’ll bike anywhere.After Breakfast in Yarmouth

Day 2: Yarmouth to Digby

Debbie, Libby, and Sarahpracticing

their temperance

Day 2: Yarmouth to Digby

(Memorial Temperance Hallof the Total Abstinence

Society :-))

The Tarwheel turtles (Libby, Sarah, Debbie)head for the ocean (noflashlight required)

Day 2: Yarmouth to Digby

Mavillete Beach Provincial Park

You’re not in the South anymore!

(Or, This darned water’s cold!)

Day 2: Yarmouth to Digby

Diet Cokeshould payme millions!

Day 2: Yarmouth to Digby

Day 2: Yarmouth to Digby

Having agreat time;Wish youwere here!

Day 3: Digby to Annapolis RoyalOptional Route along the Bay of Fundy

27 or 65 miles

Outside of Bear River…Up a long, steephill… yak! Uh… yuck!

Stupid punsters,always huffing by.

Carol (and Sarah)wait patiently forLibby for lunch

Day 3: Digby to Annapolis Royal

Kent (of Kent’s Family Restaurant)shows us what lunch could looklike!Day 3: Digby to Annapolis Royal

Where does heget these

customers???

I dunno, butI wish he’dthrow ‘em

back!!!

No, it wasn’ta mountainbiking trip!

Day 3: Digby to Annapolis Royal

(Carol and Sarahtake a side trip

to the Bay of Fundy.)

Carol and Sarahat the Bayof Fundy

Day 3: Digby to Annapolis Royal

Day 4: Annapolis Royal to Liverpool(72 miles)

Starting acrossthe

province(After somemajor hills)

Day 4: Annapolis Royal to Liverpool

It’s a small,small world.

Meet Ken Hiltonfrom Lexington,NC and a new Tarwheelsmember!

Day 4: Annapolis Royal to Liverpool

(A nice swimming stop!)

Outside the Barrington

textile museum

Day 4: Annapolis Royal to Liverpool

Day 4: Annapolis Royal to Liverpool

Liverpool’s age isreflected in itscemeteries datingfrom the 1700s.

Day 5: Liverpool to Shelbourne(Optional route past

Sandy Point Lighthouse)58 or 74 miles

A few hills,and thenanotherbeach!

Day 5: Liverpool to Shelbourne

The mileage wasn’t enough.

Libby and Carol went looking

for Tudor Tile.

Day 5: Liverpool to Shelbourne

It was closed, but the garden was pretty.

The Titanic

A lighthouseThe Lockport Flotilla

Day 5: Liverpool to Shelbourne

Tiles (by Tudor Tile)

at the Lockport Beach

Center

Day 5: Liverpool to Shelbourne

The Sandy PointLighthouse

Day 6: Shelburne to Shag Harbor56 miles

Libby loves hernew bike. . . And doesn’t

it look pretty???

(Breakfast inShelburne)

Now this isa “flower bed!”

(Outside ofShelburne)

The Seal Islandlight--The (nowautomated) lighthouse is stilloperational offthe coast.

Give me aDiet Cokeand occasionalmeal at McDonald’s,and I’m a happybiker!

McLobster in Barrington Passage

It felt just like home!

OK! Huddle!

(Brrrrrr….)

Win a chocolatebar! Whose feetare these warmsocks encasing?

Paul makes use of thesinks attachedto the showertruck.

That’s all, folks!On to Bar Harbor. . .

Bunchberry

Carol and Kimand Steve

Loons, eagles, ospreys,seals, comorants and an upper body workout!

I toldyou tolook

out fortheseguys!

Bring on the tools andnapkins!

The womenhike AcadiaNational Park

The Importanceof Life Goals:Stephen King’sHouse in Bangor,ME.

Thanks!