25 May Eastern Tip of the Island

    Louis Rubenstein, a well respected founding member of MBC tried several times to RSVP for the May 25 excursion around the eastern tip of the island.  Apparently the corona virus maximum of 3  had been attained and no more participants were being accepted. Never mind he thought - "I'm gonna go anyway"and proceeded to the secret starting point.   It was a lonely wait and he almost decided to venture out on his own when to his wondering eyes should appear:  A-T Lane.

      So we headed out along de Maisonneuve thru downtown up University, Milton, Park Ave, Jeanne-Mance to Fairmount and Wilensky's Light Lunch - a legendary eatery at which he had dined on many occasions since 1973 - but not this time as it was closed due to covid. 

The 2 founders continued on up Berri then Papineau to Gouin.  Here they zig-zagged east past waterfalls and rapids, RDP as far as the Repentigny bridge at the eastern extremity of the island. 

Then they headed west along Notre-Dame with stops to view les Isles de Boucherville, ships, oil refineries etc to Viau where Louis decided to ride the metro home rather than navigate the Alp like climb up to Sherbrooke in the west end.  Total distance cycled: 70 k.

Louis Rubenstein

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  The two members headed west on the return leg of the journey, stopping briefly to watch some ships headed up river.

    After dropping Louis off at the Viau Metro, A.T continued along Sherbrooke street where he discovered the newly built bike path!

Newly Built Sherbrooke Street Bike Path near the Olympic Stadium

    West of the "Big Owe" the path runs along Rachel where again it has been much improved over the last few days.