{"id":513,"date":"2009-07-21T20:27:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T00:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/?p=513"},"modified":"2010-03-16T18:04:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T22:04:55","slug":"manic-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/manic-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Manic 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday 7\/20\/2009<\/p>\n<p>Days on the road: 22<br \/>\nDay mileage: 300 (JF only)<br \/>\nJF total mileage: 5124<br \/>\nGale total mileage: 3132<br \/>\nStates\/Provinces: Quebec<\/p>\n<p>I rode with Jean-Francois up route 389 to see the Manic 5 hydroelectric dam where I got my first introduction to the wonderful world of black flies. When we got off the motorcycle to take pictures they swarmed around our heads. The ride and the black flies are worth seeing Manic 5 and the road up there. The pavement is a little pot-holed, but the curves and the scenery are great. The Manic facilities are impressive and we got an explanation of the construction at Manic 5.<\/p>\n<p>We had called about camping and been told that camping was not recommended right now because of bears, but found people camping when we got up there. We rode back to Baie-Comeau since we didn&#8217;t have the camping gear with us.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-513 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/baie-comeau.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/baie-comeau-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-515\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-515'>\n\t\t\t\tLeaving Baie-Comeau\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/roadtomanic.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/roadtomanic-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-518\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-518'>\n\t\t\t\tRoad to Manic 5\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/manic2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/manic2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-516\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-516'>\n\t\t\t\tManic 2\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/50parallel.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/50parallel-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-514\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-514'>\n\t\t\t\tCrossing 50th Parallel\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/manic5.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/manic5-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-517\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-517'>\n\t\t\t\tManic 5\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Baie Comeau and Manic pictures can be seen at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/motorcycle-journeys.com\/past\/canada_2009\/photos\/quebec\/manic\/index.html\">http:\/\/motorcycle-journeys.com\/past\/canada_2009\/photos\/quebec\/manic\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday 7\/20\/2009 Days on the road: 22 Day mileage: 300 (JF only) JF total mileage: 5124 Gale total mileage: 3132 States\/Provinces: Quebec I rode with Jean-Francois up route 389 to see the Manic 5 hydroelectric dam where I got my first introduction to the wonderful world of black flies. When we got off the motorcycle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip_reporting","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}