Statistics while cycle touring throughout Canada, with photos, travelers information, daily logs of distance, elevation and costs, journal entries.
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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]
Apr 302011
Statistics while cycle touring throughout Nova Scotia, Canada, with photos, travelers information, daily logs of distance, elevation and costs, journal entries.
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]
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]
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]
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]
Apr 102011
(written over the course of the past week) Some world traveler I am. For a guy who is telling the entire internet his intentions to flip his previous life upside down and head on an epic expedition I seem to be missing a few major steps. In fact, the only expeditions I’ve gone on in the past 6 weeks has been to the hospital multiple times, battling the snow that blows sideways, the harsh temperatures carried along by the heavy Atlantic winds and slippery streets. To add insult to injury, [read more]
Mar 222011
The weather certainly hasn’t improved by double digits which is what I was hoping here in St. John’s, Newfoundland. While the roads are mostly clear and one can actually walk on the sidewalks now (There is no snow clearing bylaw for your sidewalks like most other places in Canada, so people just walk on the road which is a danger in itself). Still, the temperatures remain below zero, ice is regular and snow flurries come once a day with the rapidly changing weather patterns (we are in the middle of [read more]
As much as I’d like to get away from Technology, it still plays a very large role in my life, even while on the road. I use my Garmin GPS regularly to record my daily statistics and elevation charts not to mention getting me out of binds when I go off the beaten path. I carry an Apple iPhone with me, not so much to make calls over the cellular network, but to send text messages, check for available WI-FI networks, so that I can browse the web, check the [read more]
