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Day 10 - July 28

Today is a rest day. Not sitting in the saddle even to go to dinner. If it is not walkable, it is out of range. As luck would have it I'm right in the middle of Thunder Bay's annual Busker Festival. For the uninitiated, a Busker is a street performer looking for gratuities.  I can't to you how unimaginably bad the performers are but somehow, it manages to add to the charm of the festival. There is a hula-hoop girl that doesn't really hula, but walks in a circle carrying various hoops while recorded music plays. Then there is the duo of a 16 year old accoustic guitar player singing into Mr. microphone while his little brother beats on a Toys R Us drum set.  Finally, a New Zealander with a big gold front tooth manages to climb up on a 5 foot tall unicycle on the 6th try and holds an unplugged electric guitar which he never plays. This is all incredibly amusing and has brought out the whole town.

500 miles into BikeSuperior and the journey continues in the morning. Expect to be back in the U.S. tomorrow afternoon if ICE doesn't put me into detention.

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