It's Canoe Trippin' Time!

At long last, after so many hundreds of kilometres we have made it to Churchill Falls.  This entire voyage has spawned from our wish to paddle the Churchill River before a second dam is built on it, destroying the natural course of the river forever.  For so long we've been saying "when we get to the river...."  or "when we go down the river"....and now, all of a sudden we're here.  After everything!  Our latest adventure has included 4 flat tires in the 3 days it took us to ride from Labrador City to Churchill Falls.  No flat tires for over 1300 Kms, and 4 in a row. Adrien's first blew out the sidewall on her tread and with much duct tape and cursing we reinforced the tread and put a new tube in...our last one.  The bike, sitting upside down with no weight on the tire whatsoever litterally exploded as the new tube blew up in front of everyone watching.  The mysteries of life!   With some amazing support from our new motorcycle friends and a kind couple in a pickup Dave courageously finished the ride to keep our "human powered" status on the go, while Adrien took her ruined bike and all the gear to set up camp in town.  Dave is the hero, he covered 59 Kms on the worst kind of gravel in less than 3.5 hours.  GO DAVE!  We will get the bikes all sorted out in Happy Valley where there's a bike shop and happily (and hopefully uneventfully!) finish our last 10 days of cycling on this trip. None of that matters as we eagerly await the Grand River Keeper's arival with our trusty old town canoe to kick off into the meat of the trip.  There is much food to be eaten and lots of sleep to be had....we couldn't be more excited!  Over and Out!