As we drive west this was a great place to rest for a day and get a bike ride in plus a little walking to some spectacular views.
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Ottawa and Algonquin Provincial Park, September 16th – 21st
A lot of cities in North America claim to be bike friendly. Ottawa has them all beat, hands down, no contest. From our campground twenty km from downtown, we took a beautiful bike trail all the way in as it meandered along the Ottawa River. It seemed like there was a park or greenway around […]
Quebec, Gaspesie National Park, Parc national du Bic, Quebec City, our stops and route
From the parks website, you can read more – https://www.sepaq.com/pq/bic/decouvrir/portrait.dot?language_id=1 THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE PARK “In late August, 1535, three small vessels bearing the arms of King Francis I, sailed up the St. Lawrence River at the mercy of the late summer breezes. On Sunday, August 29, seeing a site of great beauty, the […]
Quebec, Gaspé Peninsula – September 7th-9th
We had to go to the Gaspé Peninsula. It was a must and not because of the history, scenery, bakeries and parks. The urgency had started four days earlier. We were on our planned route to St John’s, Newfoundland when it made sense. Milissa had been saying for a few days that that big storm […]
Cape Breton Island, Meat Cove, – Bike Ride August 22nd
Six months ago, at a great campground southwest of Tucson, fellow travelers in the next campsite, Pat and Lewis, told us about this magical place called Meat Cove. Their smiles were wide and eyebrows high as they recounted their time there in a tiny campground perched perched on a cliff overlooking the St Lawrence Seaway […]
PEI, July 26th-29th Bike Ride and B&B/Hotels along the way (Mill River Resort, Prince County B&B & Shaw’s Hotel).
This place is about potatoes. 25% of Canada’s potato production comes from Prince Edward Island, and 60% of those spuds are headed to accompany your next burger, or get Frito-laid. As at least 86% of Canada’s potato export market is the US, there is an excellent chance we saw the very place where your next […]
Riding Fundy Trail – July 22nd – see video below
Our bikes have twenty speeds, ten sprockets in the back and two up front. Then the assist from the battery has four levels. So theoretically, we have eighty-speed bikes. With two shifters and the battery controller, we just tune in the right pedal resistance for the slope. Sounds all rational and engineer-y, right? But there […]
Long Bike Ride With a Great Finish- From Sunset Point Campground to Machias & RT- July 19th
Since we’re planning a four day bike ride on Prince Edward Island next week. We figured we better get our butts in shape. So we set off on one of Maine’s rail-to-trail projects, the Down East Sunrise trail. Although it runs 88 miles from Ellsworth to the Canadian border, we only rode a short 18 […]
The Acadia Ride
Our bike shorts have extra padding, kind of like a sewn-in diaper, but only for absorbing road->butt forces. We wear special shirts to wick the sweat and special gloves to prevent road rash if we fall. We outfitted our helmets with two-way communicators that also connect to our cell phone for music, GPS directions, and […]