MY DAUGHTER’S WEDDING, AUG 27 My beautiful daughter, Stacia, got married on Saturday, August 27 in Thornhill. She wed her wonderful fiance, Jacques, in a lovely ceremony. I served as the officiant: their legal marriage was looked after in Quebec (they live in Montreal). Congratulations (felicitations!) to the super-loving bride and groom!
Next morning was a Friday, my final day of the trip. I fueled myself with a couple travel-sized boxes of sugar bomb cereal, Fruit Loops and HoneyComb with milk: breakfast of champions. My route was fairly straightforward back to North York. First I rode from central Oshawa to Tauton Road, which is the eastern extension […]
Cavan, Ontario Aug 10 2022 Next day, on the way to Cavan Monaghan, was a delight. This farming township, says Wikipedia, was known as Cavan-Millbrook-North Monaghan until 2007. It’s in Peterborough County in central-eastern Ontario, 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of the city of Peterborough. About 10km west of Norwood I came upon a trestle […]
Madoc, Ontario Aug 6 2022 My ride the next day to Madoc was on the very thin shoulder of Highway 7 in cottage country. Didn’t see a fellow cyclist the entire ride.! (They were clearly smarter than me.) Had my rear light flashing on full, hence most traffic coming from behind gave me plenty of […]
Perth, Ontario Aug 6 2022 I’ve been pretty fortunate overall with the folks who’ve been hosting me along the way. Have been using mostly Airbnb for the past few weeks (finding a motel or Airbnb within 5-10km of how far I’ve wanted ride each day has been hair-rippingly tough due to peak travel season, and […]
Perth, says Wikepedia, is a town in Eastern Ontario, Canada, over 200 years old. It’s on the Tay River, 83 kilometres (52 mi) southwest of Ottawa, and is the seat of Lanark County. Population is around 6,500. I stayed at an Airbnb hosted by a jaunty fellow named Marcel. Originally from a place outside of […]
Would have like to stay longer in Ottawa and interview more people. However I had to book the rest of my stays, while in Ottawa, that’d get me back to Toronto. I decided to take a route that would put me flush into Central Ontario, with its small towns and farming communities, rather than go […]
Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec, July 30 2022 My cycling from Montreal to Vaudreuil-Dorion took longer than planned. Google Maps pulled one of it’s worst tricks on me. I was in a small town on the way to motel I’d booked for the night. They had a great fish and chips place there, and bought a dinner to […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFiYiY6l5ok My Airbnb host in Ottawa, Marni, agreed to share her views on democracy. She experienced the trucker convoy in Ottawa (Feb-Mar 2022) and has a few choice words to share. At first she said she didn’t have much to say. However when given a chance, it turns out she is very thoughtful and articulate. […]
Was in Rockland, Ontario, about 45 km east of Ottawa. Just before I checked into the Airbnb for that evening, a townhouse in a pretty new neighbourhood, these two young men approached me. They were fundraisers for Plan Canada. I told them that I too was fundraising, in my case for @TheMosaicInstitute and @antihateca, and […]
