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 […]
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Quebec City, September 13th-15th
I had always thought that Quebec was a quintessentially French word. The Algonquin tribes that settled here named the place “where the river narrows” and French dudes like Samuel de Champlain adopted it when they settled there in 1608. It’s got a perfect strategic spot on the St Lawrence River, and it has the only […]
Boston
We had understood that the American Revolution was unwanted by most of the people living in the colonies, and that only a small percentage of people supported it. What we didn’t realize was how much the truth was stretched and how much propaganda drove the forces that started this country. On our tour of The […]