This morning we are having the snowmobiler’s breakfast, you should know by know that means eggs, meat, potatoe and your choice of white or “brown” toast. We are scheduled for a 10am departure, for the reason I mentioned prior (to let the sub zero temperatures “rise”) but also there has been another overnight dilema.
Back in Hotel Copper, apparently Dylan placed his insulin in the in room fridge. Apparently, the in room fridge is set at keep beer cold temperature, not keep insulin just chilled. It froze. Again. At 8am, the owner of the Grande Nature drove Dylan into town and to the local hospital. There, Dylan paid the local Doctor $20 American for a prescription, then they drove to the local Pharmacy for fulfillment. Once there, it was social hour for the lodge proprietor, as he knew everybody in the the pharmacy! Problem was, they only had one vial of the needed juice. So, load em up, we’re headed accross town to the other pharmacy. Once there, the proprietor told Dylan to wait in the car, otherwise they would play 50 questions with Dylan about allergies, etc., and the proprietor could just go in and get if without the fuss.
By 10am, Dylan was back to the lodge, and within 20 minutes of his return, we were on our trail to meet up with Connecticut, who was in Matane dealing with his broken Yamaha Apex.
In a parallel world, Connecticut Jim was at the local Yamaha dealer at 8am when they opened. He was informed that the electrical problem infesting his machine was something their “Master” mechanic would have to address, and he won’t be in until 1pm.
This is where the boys and the men go their seperate ways. Connecticut whipped out his favorite credit card, said get that Blue & Gray Sidewinder on the showroom floor prepped, I’m riding it out of here today! Prep began with a flurry. Until lunch. When they shut down the dealership, booted Connecticut to the curb, and they had their lunch in peace. He meandered down a block to the A&W Restuarant, had his lunch, and went back an hour later to the dealership. I tell ya, these East Coast fella’s will stop at nothing to get their name in ink with this blog!
We rolled into Matane around 1:30 and went directly to the Yamaha dealership to get filled in on the above info. Needless to say we were all impressed. Apparently he told Rob & Dylan that if they did’nt have a Sidewinder, he was going to walk down to the Ski Doo dealer and buy a SKI DOO!!! Now that would have been the cherry on top for me, but, alas, we were just glad he was getting back on the trail.
The rest of us rode down to the A&W, stopping to fill up our sled’s tanks at the gas station next door, prior to filling our tanks. By 3pm, Connecticut was riding his shiny new Sidewinder into the gas station, as we all watched thru the windows from within the warmth of the A&W. I guess sleds aren’t like cars? They don’t top the tank off for you when you purchase new!
Once the new sled was fueled, it was time to ride it like he stole it. And he was ready. He wasted no time pulling into the A&W parking lot and saying “Lets go, I’m ready to ride!”
Our destination this evening is in Saint Flavie at Le Gaspesiana. Fearless Leader tells me I have been here before. I have zero recollection of ever being here. But we arrived around 5:45 pm. and promptly checked into our rooms, and headed to the bar for happy hour.
Dinner was excellent! It was like days of lore, when dinner was an event, a 2 - 3 hour process. We were served an appetizer of cheese covered shrimp soaked in a butter sauce. It was killer good. Then came the soup, a tasty potatoe soup ( some chose the upgrade to Onion Soup) and then the entree’ of steak with mashed potatoes and aspragus* (sorry, I can describe my dinner, cus I was hungry and working on this life sucking blog for my 7 followers). Not to mention a nice bottle of wine or 2 and a few double doubles of our favorite tonic. Problem solvers, we are.
Tomorrow we are scheduled for our standard departure time of 9am. Trails have been groomed, snow is in the forcast, should be a good next to last day of riding
We shall see.
Bye for now…
Stick
