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 […]
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 […]
Had a Wonderful Time In Montreal After that crazy night in Repentigny with the car fires, how sweet it was to arrive in Montreal, home to my daughter and her fiance. Also there for a visit was my son, who lives in Vancouver. Arrived at my daughter’s place early afternoon on July 27. After some […]
In Repentigny tonite; tomorrow Montreal On Sunday I arrived in Trois-Rivieres, so called because three substantial rivers flow through it. One of the bridges, instead of being paved, had criss-crossed metal as its base. Made it a bit dicey to traverse by bike because my front wheel kept wanting to follow the grooves, while cars […]
On July 23 I partly cabbed then rode the rest of the way to Portneuf, about 79 km west. I stuck to the highway with one lane on either side, that has a pretty good space for biking to the side. Some cool scenery along the way. The Airbnb I stayed at was a real […]
