Author: Rebecca J Hogue
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Trip to the travel doctor
Read more: Trip to the travel doctorToday, we paid a visit to the travel doctor. I’m of mixed feelings about the visit. I found that I trusted the Doctor’s advise, and that he really knew about the various things; but I also felt that he didn’t do a good enough job informing me about medications and shots. If I hadn’t done…
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Scott and Becky are Going East!
Read more: Scott and Becky are Going East!When we tell people we are going on a 15 month bicycle tour, the first question we are asked is “Where are you going?” The simplest answer to the question is, “we are going east.” When we first talked about this trip in September 2007, it was only 4 months and involved cycling across Canada…
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Skating away
Read more: Skating awayTuesday, we didn’t ski. We each had a complimentary Thai Yoga massage, which felt wonderful. The weather wasn’t conducive to skiing on a lake (it rained and warmed right up), so we spent the day relaxing. I discovered that it was glorious to turn the steam on in the steam shower, and then compliment it…
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A day in the classic tracks
Read more: A day in the classic tracksScott skied: 3 hr 45 min, 21.5 kmBecky skied: 3 hr, 15.5 km Today, we headed out to try some classic skiing. We have spent most of our time this year on our skate skis, so this was a nice change of pace. For the first part of our journey, we headed out across Galeairy…
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A beautiful winter Sunday
Read more: A beautiful winter SundayWe are up at the Couples Resort up in Whitney Ontario (on highway 60 at the south east board of Algonquin park). This is actually our third time at the Couples Resort, previously known as the Bear Trail. We like to venture up here in the winter and spend a week cross country skiing. The…
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Day 8 – Home for a rest
Read more: Day 8 – Home for a restToday: 16 kmRide time: 58m Track from Dovern B&B to Charlettetown Airport.Track from Ottawa airport to home. Today was pretty unadventurous. We rode to the airport in Charlottetown. It took us only 30 minutes to change and pack our bikes (much quicker than for our departure from Ottawa). We arrived home to have all our…
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Day 7 – Back to Charlottetown
Read more: Day 7 – Back to CharlottetownToday: 65 km (60 to the B&B and an additional 5 km running around Charlottetown.Ride time: 4h 3m. Track for ride from St. Peters to Charlottetown.As Scott would say, today we cheated. More specifically, we took a ride from Souris to St.. Peters, which took oft about 25 km from our ride today. I felt…
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Day 6 – water and wind
Read more: Day 6 – water and windToday: 36 km Ride time: 2h 7m Track for ride to Singing Sands and back.Today was wet. It is hard to look back at the pictures of the last few days and remember what the Sun felt like. Today is full of wind and rain. the picture is me ringing the water out of my…
