Category: Cycle PEI
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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…
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Day 5 – The journey east
Read more: Day 5 – The journey eastToday: 70 kmRide time: 3h 51m Track from Knox’s Dam (Montague) to McLean House Inn (Souris).Today we journeyed from Knox’s Dam B&B in Montague to Souris. The journey began on a very nice part of the Confederation trail. I was quite happy to discover that the trail did have parts that were better packed than…
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Day 4 – Beaches and lighthouses
Read more: Day 4 – Beaches and lighthousesToday: 57.24 kmRide time: 3h 11m Unfortunately, I don’t have the GPS tracks for today because I forgot to plug in my GPS last night and I appear to have not turned it off at the end of yesterday (oops). Here is the track for part of the ride out to Panmure Island. Today we…
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Day 3 – great ride and great stories
Read more: Day 3 – great ride and great storiesToday: 38 kmRide time: 2h 15m Track for ride from Fiddle Farm to Knox’s Dam.Today was a short ride day (38 km), and my muscles were very glad of it. My muscles were also very glad that the B&B had a nice soaker tub. The ride was a series of rolling hills. The road was…
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Day 2 – Tired after a long day
Read more: Day 2 – Tired after a long dayToday 79 km.Ride time: 4h 16m Track for trip to Cape Bear. The day started and ended lovely. The sun blessed us most of the day.Our first stop was at the visitor information centre just outside the Wood Island ferry terminal (where the ferry from Nova Scotia lands on PEI). We were amused by the…
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Day 1 – Adventuring forth
Read more: Day 1 – Adventuring forthToday: 77 km Ride time: 4h 2mFiddle Farm B&B 46deg 00.587′ N 62deg 51.612′ W Track for Charlottetown to Fiddle Farm.The day started out a little chilly (about 12 deg C). We began by making short trip out to see Victoria Park in Charlottetown before heading away from the city. Along our travels, we came…
