Category: Canada
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Riding up island and visiting friends
Read more: Riding up island and visiting friends69 km, 5 h Ruckle Park, Salt Spring to 4 all seasons RV park, Ladysmith 86 km, 5h 40 min Ladysmith to Qualicum Indian Reservation RV Park, Bowser 53 km, 3 h Bowser to Comox Cycling on Salt Spring and Southern Vancouver Island, we were immediately aware of many other cycling tourists – more than…
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Ottawa, Ottawa, Ottawa
Read more: Ottawa, Ottawa, Ottawa48 km, 3 hr Q: Where are you from? A: Ottawa. Q: Where are you going? A: Ottawa. Q: Where did you start? Today on during one of our stops, a cyclist asked us these three questions in turn. After the first two, he said “and don’t say Ottawa!” Unfortunately we had to tell the…
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Friends, visits and preparations
Read more: Friends, visits and preparations17 km around town Sorry everyone, we have been pitifully slow at updating the blog over the last week. Our energies have been devoted to visiting, shopping, and sorting through all our stuff. After a week, we are definitely feeling more at home back in Canada and our ready to get back on the road.…
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Back in Canada, eh?
Read more: Back in Canada, eh?31 km, 2h 10 min Heidi and Scott set a quick pace for the grey and chilly ride from Heidi and Dick’s place in Sequim to the ferries in Port Angeles. We were delighted to have guides for our ride out to the ferry, and we thoroughly enjoyed our visit with Heidi and Dick. They…
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w with fish, bucket, bucket, candy cane
Read more: w with fish, bucket, bucket, candy cane47 km, 3 hours, Max temp 42 ¾Ñ§§Ò aka Phang-nga (if you are seeing gibberish, it may be that you don’t have the Thai font installed) We are having some fun with the Thai script. The characters have great shapes to them, such that you can image different things with the names. Unfortunately, there are…
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Topkapi Palace
Read more: Topkapi PalaceOur day started with a visit to the Topkapi Palace. Becky was not too keen on the price (20 Lira + 15 Lira Harem tour + 10 Lira Audio Guide = 90 YTL), but we used the regret test. Is this something we would regret not doing? Our first answer was yes, and in the…
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Boarding the freighter
Read more: Boarding the freighterOur day began with some typical chaos. Yesterday, we had been told to call Felix in the morning to check about boarding the ship. Carlos could not tell us when we could or should board. We did know that the ship was due to arrive at 7 am, expected to clear customs at around 8…
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Farewell to Nova Scotia …
Read more: Farewell to Nova Scotia …48km, 2h50m … your sea-bound coast, Let your mountains dark and dreary be. For when I am far away on the briny ocean tossed, Will you ever heave a sigh and a wish for me? This is the chorus of “Farewell to Nova Scotia”, which we have been singing all day. Scott misremembered the first…