We woke rather early for sleeping in the comfort of a hotel room. Well, maybe not entirely in comfort, since I had to sleep on the floor with my camping gear and woke Chris up in turn. Not having any sort of dining facilities within a few kilometers meant it
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Day 6: Summerside to Brackley Point
The weather forecast for our 6th day of riding came in much the same as the previous day’s –rainy and cold. Even though we had booked a campsite at Stanhope Campground, we decided early in the day to skip a wet camping experience, and instead booked a room at a
Continue reading »Day 5: Jacques Cartier Provincial Park to Summerside
Overnight, it had rained quite a lot, and my brand new MSR tent did not keep the water out, so not only was the tent and rainfly wet, but so were our sleeping pads and sleeping bags. I’ll be giving MSR a call about this tent when I get home!
Continue reading »Day 4: Out-and-back to North Point
We got woken up in the middle of the night with the wind blowing and rain, with our tent fly flapping around like crazy. Out we jumped into the cold, wet night and battened down the tent, putting in all the guy lines and pulling everything tight. 10 minutes later,
Continue reading »Day 3: West Point to Jacques Cartier
After a fairly late night of campfire tending, we were a bit slow getting ready to go in the morning. The bicycle tourists in the site next to us were up at 8:00 and gone by 9:00, while we weren’t ready to hit the road until nearly 10:00. The plan
Continue reading »Day 2: Linkletter to West Point
With such a nice, warm day before, overnight came with a good amount of dew to dry off the tent, and it took us quite a while to get all packed up and ready to go. While cleaning up, we ran into a bike touring couple who had ridden over
Continue reading »Day 1.1: Rest day in Summerside
With the crazy wind of the previous day over and done with, it was time to rest, relax and recuperate in Summerside and at camp. After a nice sleep-in, we had breakfast at camp, and rode the quick 8km (5mi) into town for coffee, pastry, food, and beers by the
Continue reading »Day 1: Charlottetown to Summerside
Chris and I got an early start to our day, enjoying the massive selection of complimentary breakfast our hotel had to offer. We were well-fed and ready to roll out at 9:00 sharp. Our day started with some bike troubles and we both needed some adjustments after our hasty bike
Continue reading »Day 0: Charlottetown
With all my bike touring gear packed up in cardboard boxes, I was off to SFO to catch my plane to Canada. After some faff checking in my previously-used camp stove, I was waiting on my red-eye flight to Toronto. A quick layover later and after a bit of a
Continue reading »Off to Prince Edward Island!
Today is finally the day! I’m setting off from San Francisco and heading to Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada for my next bike trip. For those not in the know, PEI is the smallest province of Canada and is part of the Canadian Maritimes on the Atlantic coast in the
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