Sunday morning we woke up and were both surprisingly refreshed. Had I known I would feel this good after hauling 40-50 lbs of gear over 100 miles I might not have booked another hotel night and instead headed right out … Continue reading Ride Day 6: Back to Montreal – and Stormchasing
We’re back in Montreal and so it’s time to look back on this trip in terms of numbers: Kilometres ridden: 550 (Approximately the distance from New York City to Pittsburgh) Shortest Riding Day: 47.9 km (Yesterday) Longest Riding Day: 162.1 km (Saturday) Tire Revolutions: 252294 Metres climbed: 4394 – about 8 CN Towers Number of flats: 0 Number of times our bikes needed a full washdown: 1 Overnight Stop Locations: 5 Times Google sent us on another sketchy route: 3 Number of International Border Crossings: 2 Number of US States visited: 2 Number of Canadian provinces visited 1 Number of potential … Continue reading Summer 2017 Ride by the Numbers
The time had come, or maybe it was overdue for us to go back home to Canada. We started our day off with the hotel’s continental breakfast – pretty limited for fueling what would be the longest day of any tour I’d ever done. I had four slices of peanut butter toast and then a bagel with some more peanut butter besides and washed it down with lots of coffee. Fueled up, we got on our bikes and headed out in to one of the most perfect days for cycling we’d yet experienced. Moderate temperatures, light wind, and dazzlingly beautiful … Continue reading Ride Day 5 – or was it 5, 6, and 7?
What is it about this trip for abandoned amusement areas? We started our visit to the US with an abandoned one in Plattsburgh. Last night on the way to dinner we walked through some parking lots and came across this: It was another abandoned “family fun centre” and this one was completely accessible. And so, after hitting the go cart track, we wandered over to the mini golf course. It gets hot spending time out in the sun playing mini golf so we headed to the water to go to the bumper boats. But we need to be safe … Continue reading Abandoned: Winnie’s World
With rain in the forecast, we decided to spend a rest day in Morrisville, a delightful little town. It would need to start with breakfast and coffee, of course and so off we went in search of some. Not far from where we were staying we found El Toro, one of two Mexican restaurants in this tiny town. I ordered one of my favourites from back when we lived in New Mexico: A breakfast burrito smothered in red chile. It was as good as I remember it: stuffed with eggs, home fries, and chorizo it was a little carbohydrate and … Continue reading Rest day and Day 4
We woke up early Wednesday to find our host had already left (but left coffee on for us). The great news for us was that he had left to go pick up things for breakfast. And so Daegan and I loaded up on bagels, eggs, and bacon in preparation for our ride. We packed our bags (with freshly done laundry), oiled our chains (the previous day’s hose-down had removed much of the lubricant along with the mud) and loaded our panniers. Before long we were off with stunning weather to take us along. After a little bit of a ride, … Continue reading Ride Day 3: The Climbing Begins
A few hours after we arrived in Plattsburgh, the rain joined us there and we spent most of the day relaxing and watching bad TV in the hotel room with a quick outing in the middle of the day to break things up. The next morning we woke up and wouldn’t you know it, it was still pouring. But our time was limited and really, the attractiveness of “Staying in a Holiday Inn in the suburbs next to the interstate” is extremely limited. And so we went down to have breakfast and resolved to get on the road by 9 … Continue reading Riding Day Two – Plattsburgh to Vermont
It rained all day today and so, instead of riding we found ourselves relaxing in the hotel. I watched a bit of TV with Sage and Daegan read, drew, and napped. We did need to eat, though, so we went on a small adventure. The first thing we did was to fuel up for the trip. We waited for a break in the rain and then walked across the street to a pizza place and got food: Spaghetti and Meatballs for me with the extra carbs from some garlic bread. Chicken parmesan sandwich for Daegan. And as it started to … Continue reading Sitting Tight in Plattsburgh
Saturday morning we woke up and surprisingly, though I hadn’t done a bit of packing (Daegan, responsibly, was all ready to go the night before), I was able to get everything together and we were out the door a little … Continue reading Well and Truly Underway
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