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None of the above

May 022011

This isn’t news for 30% of my readership – but today May 2nd, 2011 is the day that we as Canadian Citizens choosing who is the most capable party to lead our country. Unlike the United States directly below us, we have multiple parties with significant support which has made our past few governments result in a minority government causing endless bickering between parties, laws not being passed, and a whole series of deceptive activities by the party with the most votes. Parliament sessions have been stayed and delayed, questions [read more]

Alberta Statistics

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Aug 132010

Statistics while cycle touring throughout Alberta, Canada, with photos, travelers information, daily logs of distance, elevation and costs, journal entries.

Dinosaurs in Drumheller

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Aug 092010

First off I’d just like to make note that the mapping and route information is now back online, I was Digg‘d a few weeks back and had to make some serious changes to the back end to avoid the server from falling over, and it ended up breaking a few components. Now I know what to expect should it happen again and it’ll run smoother! On that note, spread this site around to your friends, coworkers, family, and other people you think might be interested – I’m always interested in [read more]

Return to Riding

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Aug 082010

Am suffering from a bit of writers block. Not in the traditional sense of not knowing what to write, but the other sense, where there is so much to write about, and diving into it would take hours to complete, similar to neglecting to pulling weeds from your garden until it takes your whole day. I better get started in the writing again, as I most certainly have started riding again, this time south east from Edmonton, Alberta to the town of Drumheller, known as the Dinosaur Capital of the [read more]

Mechanical (Mental?) Meltdowns

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Jul 172010

Here’s an interesting twist to the journey. I’m back where I was 15 days ago, in the Northwest Territories, taking in the spectacular sights, sounds, and people of Yellowknife. Even stranger, is that I’m here without my bicycle! I did mention before in an earlier post that I somehow forgot to make it to the Legislative Building to do a head stand in the Caucus room, so I came back. Also, there is a festival happening in its 30th year known as Folk on the Rocks, and an airshow in [read more]

Find out what’s going on in my head?

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Jul 142010

A few weeks ago when I was in Yellowknife, NWT I had the opportunity to blab into a microphone and camera for 25 minutes for YKOnline.ca – a smaller local news portal for the city residents. I chose this method as opposed to the local paper, or the bigger news stations for overall creativity (meaning, that the majority of the interview doesn’t get cut from me going left field!), and the fact I like to support smaller operations. The interview came out pretty good, and you can see the original [read more]

Rocky Riding

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Jul 132010

Its coming up on 6pm and I’m throwing in the towel for even getting started for the day. It’s been non stop rain in the town of Jasper, Alberta nestled in the Rocky Mountains, with temperatures hovering at 4 degrees today. My tent is soaked, my sleeping bag is moist, and mattress pad is making some squishing noises – so rather than pack it all up to get all gross, I’m going to spend one more night in someones backyard where the weather will be much better come morning. So [read more]

Reunited

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Jul 092010

What a tiring week. I’ve been back on the bike everyday after taking a 14 day breather to reassess some of my goals, fix some bike issues that have crept up, and take in my surroundings. With that, came a lack of sleep which didn’t fare well for the mountainous terrain I’ve put myself into. I flew out of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories early in the morning the day after Canada Day, and flew into Cranbrook, a city I visited a couple of weeks earlier before heading into the north. I’ve [read more]

Rolling over the odometer

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Jul 072010

I’m rolling over the odometer in a few ways today. First, I turn 32, in the beautiful town of Banff Alberta, Second – I crossed over the 10,000 km mark today in one year of touring. I’m doing a little site reorganization and joining the previous tours all into one from here on in – a Fraser Valley run, a jaunt around the Sunshine Coast and Vancouver Island, down to the Tijuana, Mexico border, and the present shangri-la journey around the world, while still only making it one time zone [read more]