{"id":750,"date":"2015-07-06T20:02:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T00:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/?p=750"},"modified":"2015-07-06T20:02:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T00:02:51","slug":"day-55-glovertown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/acrosscanada\/2015\/07\/06\/day-55-glovertown\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 56 – Glovertown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 56 – Glovertown, Newfoundland (Thursday, July 2, 2015)<\/p>\n

Today was only a 155 km day. Well, compared to yesterday it was short. What I hadn’t been prepared for were the hills (I had been spoiled by the flat terrain from Deer Lake to Grand Falls) and the head wind of 26 km.<\/p>\n

I arrived in Gander, my lunch time destination, at 2 pm; two hours late and had a quick lunch at a roadside Subway. \u00a0Even though I was running late for the day I spent about 2 1\/2 hours in Gander exploring the airport museum and visiting the airport frozen in time. This was a place that I heard about with interest and was determined not to miss.<\/p>\n

I arrived in Glovertown after 8pm, much later than normal. I haven’t visited all the small sea side town’s in Newfoundland but\u00a0I sense that Glovertown may be typical; somewhat isolated, welcoming, and just starting to cater to outside visitors. I \u00a0bought some real food at the grocers and ordered a sub at a local pizza shop since all the restaurants were closed. \u00a0I may have turned out to be the talk of the town for the evening. \u00a0One interesting kid found that I had traveled on a “pedal bike” all the way from Vancouver. He repeated it to anyone he knew passing by.<\/p>\n

I stayed the night at Lilac Inn B+B. This is the most fitting name for a place to stay at the end of my cross country tour. Another name for my tour could be the lilac tour. Although lilacs only flower for a week or two I have seen a flowering lilac almost every day for more that 50 days from the middle of British Columbia to Newfoundland.<\/p>\n

Keith the owner, is a proper English host. I was served tea and cookies before crashing. Although some of the B+B\u200e frills I find silly, that was a nice touch.<\/p>\n

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The Lilac Inn in Glovetown.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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A small “pond”. An escape from the traffic.<\/div><\/div>
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A small “pond”. An escape from the traffic.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Ralph in front of an old PBY-Catalina at the aircraft museum in Gander.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The lobby of the Gander airport frozen in time with the famous mural on the wall. The public is not allowed to enter the old lobby. All these pictures were taken through the glass windows<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The lobby of the Gander airport frozen in time with the famour mural on the wall. The public is not allowed to enter the old lobby. All these pictures were taken through the glass windows<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The lobby of the Gander airport frozen in time with the famous mural on the wall. The public is not allowed to enter the old lobby. All these pictures were taken through the glass windows<\/div><\/div>
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Ralph waiting patiently outside the Gander airport building. The panniers may have looked dangerous if they were inside.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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People fishing on a “brook”.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 56 – Glovertown, Newfoundland (Thursday, July 2, 2015) Today was only a 155 km day. Well, compared to yesterday it was short. What I hadn’t been prepared for were the hills (I had been spoiled by the flat terrain from Deer Lake to Grand Falls) and the head wind of 26 km. I arrived … Continue reading Day 56 – Glovertown<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyclingtour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/acrosscanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/acrosscanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/acrosscanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/acrosscanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/acrosscanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/acrosscanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/acrosscanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/acrosscanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/acrosscanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}