Day 17: St. George, NB Rest Day 2

Day 17:  St. George, NB Rest Day 2

June 29, 2016

Miles: 0 (Its a rest day!)
 
St. George, NB

Another rest day in St. George is like a rest day in a deserted town. There never seems to be anyone walking about, and very few cars parked.  Now having spent three days here, it is apparent that there really isn't enough population to support many local businesses (approx 1500). Those open double and triple as multiple businesses. For instance, the bakery is also a market and candy store and a deli. A store that rents equipment, also sells fresh produce and has a gift shop. Although we did encounter one place in town that only sold one type of item - the ice cream parlor only serves ice cream, and we always saw people going in and out.  I guess there is high demand for ice cream in St. George.  

Again this morning, we decided to take advantage of continential breakfast.  What you don't see here below is a bowl of oatmeal that I was mixing at the time. 

Coffee was excluded from the picture unintentionally

We stayed another day because the weather forecast said rain all day.  Instead we got overcast, fog and cold weather - low 60s.  Since we woke at about, 10:00a we decided to stay another day in St George to rest.  We ride to St. John tomorrow. I worked on a route that would get us there in 50 miles.  We plan to leave early, so to arrive late-afternoon. This should be possible given the two consecutive rest days. We both feel well rested, and are anxious to get back on the bike.  The forecast tomorrow is cloudy all day, but warmer (70s). No rain is expected.  

So thanks to Netflix and HBO-Go, besides resting, we caught up on programs we started watching before we left.  How about that Cersei?  As my brother has said 'don't ever under estimate Cersei Lannister'.  He was right!   And, we did manage to leave the room this afternoon for a little while.  We took a walk in town and learned about the history here in St. George.

I snapped this picture along the way; these beautiful petunia plants are hanging in downtown St. George on every other street lamp.

The post office was an interesting building - made of granite.  Also serves as a customs office. 

A few monuments made of granite are below.  Apparently St. George, named the Granite Town, is best known for its granite quarries and history.

 Steve leaning on the Granite History monument outside the Post Office.

 Steve looking like, well I guess like, he's waiting as I snapped the pics of the Post Office.

This type of box is in front of every house.  We saw a lot of these boxes on Campobello Island and Deer Island too when riding to St. George.  It is for the trash.  We summized that it is to keep the racoons out of the garbage.  Not sure, but we both thought maybe because most of the road kill around here are racoons.

 Another shot of, well Steve waiting for me again.

Here is a picture of the St George Dam and the gorge and basin behind.  The dam that separates the river and the town. Considered a local historical place.

Here's another shot of Steve waiting for me.  This time he has a big blueberry in front of him.

We stopped off to buy fresh locally grown strawberries.  They were delilious.

 Here is Steve enjoying his strawberries.  Well, I think he is enjoying the strawberries.

OK, finally a smile.  Here is Steve witnessing first hand the gorge and water basin.  At this point it started sprinkling so we headed back to the hotel.

Tonight's dinner.  Turkey breast sandwich's that we bought at the same store that we did yesterday.  The one with all the candy!

Fresh, tasty, spicy and blurry

We are off to St. John tomorrow where we will wait anxiously for Andy, Jen and Ben to arrive.  They plan to leave RI at about 7:00p, so we do not expect them until very early on Friday morning.  We have rented a room for them to crash for when they arrive.  We plan to either take the 8:00a ferry over to Nova Scotia, or the 2:30p.  Tomorrow's a big day, so a short message to the kids from Dad and me - can't wait to see you and be very careful driving!