Day Thirty One - We make preparations...

..... and see Montreal.

Planning is front and centre now. We want to be in Vancouver tomorrow night and there will be nothing undone from our end to stop that from happening!  From here it is up to ProCam to get the Goldwing back and Westjet to return us to where we started.

After breakfast today we cabbed out to Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Dorval) airport to see how to get there and also to rent a car.  The car took us into downtown today and will pick up LZB at the shippers sans bike tomorrow morning on our way to the airport.

Getting into downtown was surprisingly easy, even uneventful, and we were soon parked.  And look what we found in the lot!  This T-Rex is 14 years old if you can believe it.

It has a Kawasaki 1100 engine although you can now get them with a 1600 BMW.  Pretty cool!  Scott, you need one of these!

From there we went to the Tourist office, past a war memorial to Canadians who fought alongside the British in South Africa - who knew?

And from there we walked, along St. Catherine's with its shops, past the festival being set up for St. Jean Baptiste Day tomorrow, down and through old Montreal where we enjoyed both coffee and lunch.

And finally up to the Latin Quarter to see what that was all about.  Downtown Montreal has a lot going for it, but also a lot of pan handlers and street people.  You see them in every city but here there seem to be more than the usual. (And yes, we are worse in Vancouver, but in a more concentrated area)

You will recall that we missed the blessing of the bikes yesterday in Colebrook.  So we decided to have our own little ceremony tonight and pour the last of our trusty Jack Daniels on the windshield of the 'Wing to wish it a safe and quick return home.

We've packed as much as we can, now its time to hit the sack and get ready for a big day tomorrow.