Traveling and adventure on two wheels
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
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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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The last day of our tour was upon us, and it was looking like it would be a doozie. It was to be our longest day at over 96km to the southwestern suburb of Barrhaven in Ottawa. There were very few towns we’d be going through for chances to stop.
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Resolving to an earlier start than our previous days to beat the heat and get to our destination with time to explore and enjoy, the group (less Ilya) was up nice and early for breakfast of peaches and oatmeal. Chris, Alina and I went to fetch the stored bicycles from
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After a couple days of hard riding in the heat and humidity, we had earned our rest day in Kingston to see the sights and relax. The only plan we had for the day was to meet some friends, who were driving down from Ottawa for dinner at the Kingston
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The night’s sleep at Poonamalie Lockstation, just outside Smiths Falls turned out to be very broken at-best. The overnight temperature seemed to never fall below 20°C (70°F). It was hot enough that I never used my sleeping bag at all. Also overnight, a substantial thunderstorm rolled through and Chris and
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The day had finally come to start my second ever bike tour! My brother and I were both excited to hit the road, but also concerned. All of Eastern Canada had been in a pretty severe heat wave with temperatures climbing to around 35°C (95°F), that along with high humidity
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As I posted previously, my second bike tour was to be a group tour with my brother and some friends who had never been on a bike tour before. In fact, of the four of us who were to go, I was the only one who had ridden more than
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Going into my first bicycle tour, I did a lot of research into the ideal gear to use and bring. For anyone considering a self-supported bicycle tour, I thought I’d put together a list of the gear I used, and for some of it, let you know why I brought
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Wit the bike tour done, it was time to catch the train back to the Bay Area. For that, Amtrak runs the Coast Starlight, a daily train from Los Angeles to Seattle. This would be a fun trip. For a bicycle tourist, the first great thing about the Coast Starlight
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