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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]

Nova Scotia Statistics

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Apr 302011

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

Choose your own Misadventure

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Apr 292011

There were a series of books aimed at children/young adults in the 80’s that took the reader to a far off place, some involving wizards, some ghost stories, but the premise was always that you would read a few of the pages, and if you decided to follow the characters into another direction you would simply flip to the page it requested you to. Usually this was lots of fun, and sometimes one wouldn’t get too far, often falling in a pit, or ending prematurely. You’d then start the book [read more]

Working out the kinks

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Apr 282011

Attention: I have a working stove, which also means I have coffee in the morning, which also means I’m able to form sentences properly again. I’ve been slowly working out the startup kinks over the past few days and am now settling into life as a traveler on the road again, short of the odd ache and pain that I still get in my legs and a nasty sunburn I’m caring for on my hands and nose I’m doing A-OK. When I last posted I was in a tough spot, [read more]

Fiddling and Fumbling

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Apr 232011

Half of a chocolate bar, 2 granola bars, a can of peaches, a can of oysters, and a hunk of cheddar cheese that has been sitting in my panniers for 5 days was what I had for dinner tonight, yup – this is cycle touring. Where everything goes the right way, except when it doesn’t. I knew this day was going to come and fully expected it, but it is happening right now – first night back on the road. After checking out the weather report the other day and [read more]

Onwards to the next Phase..

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Apr 202011

And so it begins, blasting music while dodging potholes in traffic, feeling the stretching and burning of the muscles, and getting odd looks from people as they walk past my bicycle while writing this post in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Yup – I’m back here again – and even though I don’t like to ride in the same places where I have been in the past I have no choice since there is nowhere to go but west. I did make it off of the island of Newfoundland – eventually. [read more]

Beating the bad weather

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Oct 252010

Coming up close to the end of this phase, I’m writing this aboard the MV J&C Smallwood, traveling from North Sydney, Nova Scotia to Port aux Basques, Newfoundland. I calculated sometime in July that I’d be doing this trip on the 18th of October, and I am not too disappointed that I’ve arrived a week late. The weather is good, I’ve had a good time spending time with people rather than rushing through and missing out on opportunistic moments, and to be frankly honest, I don’t want to stop touring. [read more]