Day 6, part 2 (post 2nd breakfast at Durham Cafe in Lindsay)

Nice bucolic biking today
Really felt like Wisconsin south of Madison
Cows, goats, sheep, rolling hills, corn, soy, you name it 
Crossing the Trent-Severn Waterway again
On the SE side a Lindsay
the bike infrastructure was great
And we met this really nice, older couple at this junction of the Victoria Rail Trail, the TransCanada Trail and the city path
She was riding an electric assist tricycle and they were both really happy to be out biking.
Awesome.
good signage, even
Heidi passing the "start" of the TransCanada Trail by the yellow fire hydrant
And, the 2nd tricycle rider we saw at this busy bike/ped path intersection 
we thought of our friend Joe Dobson
And how when we biked across America "we took different paths"
And then ended up meeting again, several states later, and having a nice lunch on a church lawn ...
good signage 
TransCanada Trail, heading towards Peterborough
Victoria Rail Trail, our path, today 

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