Robert Matzinger's Cycling Trans-Labrador Highway Pages
Cycling Trans-Labrador Highway
From Maniq V the road starts to be gravel. It takes us another two
days
to leave the hills and to enter the interiour planes of Northern Quebec.
Now the road is just an endless line leading to the horizon.
Billions of blackflies get the most annoying thing on this trip.
When stopping, they seem to eat us alive.
In the evening we always wear our head nets - no way to do without them.
Just eating remains to be difficult.
A couple of 100km later we reach Gagnon, a charming town once,
but totally levelled today.
We recognize it just by the absence of trees.
An 80km stretch of paved road in the middle of nowhere. It's
broad, straight, nice and lonely
and it feels to be the craciest piece of road we can remember.
The
last 70km to Fermont cost us a lot of power as we encounter heavy truck
traffic and the worst gravel we will see on this journey.