headwinds gusting to 60km/hr

We made it to Carleton Place after struggling with some serious headwinds. Gusting to 60km from the West. It rained and blew all night long as well. We camped on a grassed verge at the back end of the WalMart parking lot. We're going to try to make it to Perth today and take it easy. It should only be three hours or so on the road. I am tender in a few spots and stiff but otherwise surprisingly OK. Mike's knee is giving him some grief so he's gone off to buy some kind of brace.
Leslie travelled with us to just past Stittsville. After the first hour we stopped and I offloaded a pile of stuff I decided was heavy and superfluous. We left it on a picnic table and Leslie made a note saying it weighed too much and it was free for the taking. At another brief stop the wind knocked Mike's bike over and it landed on my trailer and left the first of what is sure to be many dents in the fender. Mike took my bike for about 5 km midway through the day as I was sapped of energy at that point. We were going along some gravel/dirt track and Mike was out of sight ahead when the front wheel came off and sent him for a spill. He sustained a few minor scratches but nothing serious, thank God.
We met a woman on the road yesterday who had started at Halifax and was riding back to BC. She was making much better time than us so I probably won't catch up to her again.
I started thinking that it might be nice to get up to Northern Ontario and camp for the summer near Manitoulin Island then ride back to meet my girlfriend in Brockville. It is far too early in the trip to make any concrete decisions like that but I do fondly remember Manitoulin from my youth.