Sept 11 - Grand Falls to Gander - 93 km

Not a cloud in the sky when we started out today - and it stayed like that all day. we had a big tail wind as well. The ride was fast, our moving average speed was over 24 km/hr, which is right up there with our best days. This part of the country is not too hilly, so it is pretty good for us cycling types.

Gander is another neat little town - I saw a sign on the way in that said "Chosen as one of the best 10 places in Canada to live in 2006(?)." No doubt the sign was put up by the Chamber of Commerce. Gander's airport isn't as important as it once was, but between it, associated air industry companies, Nav Canada with their Atlantic Air Traffic Control Center and being a service center for the area they are doing quite well apparently. The town is new, established in the 30's and then relocated from the original townsite a bit north of the airport to the current site. So, there is no decaying core like we've seen in so many small towns.

We arrived in town at 2:30 as a result of the good travelling, so we took in the Air Museum and I did a bicycle tour of town.

Tomorrow we're heading further along the TCH, and are trying to get through Terra Nova park to Port Blanchford. It looks like 4 more cycling days until we hit St. John's.