Lively,
Ontario
Greetings
to all:
I guess in my last note I should have written that we were in Blind River, a town made famous in a few songs, including Niel Young's "Long May You Run" and the Canadian classic "The Blackfly Song."
Today I'm writing from Lively, Ontario. Yes, that really is the name of the town and no, I'd never heard of it before today. It's a suburb of Sudbury so if you look on a map you'll see that we are making really good progress this week. We're eating this elephant and some of the bones are starting to show. We could be in Quebec by this time next week. Along the way we'll be stopping to visit Jenn & Andre, some friends of mine from Edmonton who have moved to the greener pastures (and the redder political map) of Ontario. Also we'll stop in Cobden to visit my mom and other assorted aunts, uncles and cousins who live in that area. Along the way we'll pass through Algonquin Park which was the subject for some of the 'Group of 7' artists paintings.
On our travels through the province so far we've met some interesting folks. There are more cyclists on the road now that we've reached the half-way point. We've seen someone coming the other way about every second day. We had a chat with an American fellow (Nick) and he said that he was surprised by the numbers of cyclists he'd seen on the road around Lake Superior. I guess the concentration is due to the fact that there is only 1 road. If you're doing the Trans-Canada thing you have to go that way.
Nick had run into a couple of other cyclists that we had met a few days earlier. One who was riding Vancouver to St. John's like us and trying to raise money/awareness for public access defibrillators and another fellow who was doing the TCH in pieces. He'd done about 1/4 of Trans-Canada in each of the previous 3 years and this year he was finishing it off.
I've noticed that we haven't overtaken anyone so far. They've all passed us. Even the 67 year old retired guy from Florida (Bill Quaille). Bill camped with us one night and we chatted a bit. He's practicing for a long-distance cycling contest in France next year. I think he said that the total would be about 5000Km. I do remember that he said he felt naked without his guns. He said that he normally carries 3 hand guns but didn't bring them on this trip because of the difficulty in getting them across the border.
Times up. Gotta go. Love to all.
Brent
I guess in my last note I should have written that we were in Blind River, a town made famous in a few songs, including Niel Young's "Long May You Run" and the Canadian classic "The Blackfly Song."
Today I'm writing from Lively, Ontario. Yes, that really is the name of the town and no, I'd never heard of it before today. It's a suburb of Sudbury so if you look on a map you'll see that we are making really good progress this week. We're eating this elephant and some of the bones are starting to show. We could be in Quebec by this time next week. Along the way we'll be stopping to visit Jenn & Andre, some friends of mine from Edmonton who have moved to the greener pastures (and the redder political map) of Ontario. Also we'll stop in Cobden to visit my mom and other assorted aunts, uncles and cousins who live in that area. Along the way we'll pass through Algonquin Park which was the subject for some of the 'Group of 7' artists paintings.
On our travels through the province so far we've met some interesting folks. There are more cyclists on the road now that we've reached the half-way point. We've seen someone coming the other way about every second day. We had a chat with an American fellow (Nick) and he said that he was surprised by the numbers of cyclists he'd seen on the road around Lake Superior. I guess the concentration is due to the fact that there is only 1 road. If you're doing the Trans-Canada thing you have to go that way.
Nick had run into a couple of other cyclists that we had met a few days earlier. One who was riding Vancouver to St. John's like us and trying to raise money/awareness for public access defibrillators and another fellow who was doing the TCH in pieces. He'd done about 1/4 of Trans-Canada in each of the previous 3 years and this year he was finishing it off.
I've noticed that we haven't overtaken anyone so far. They've all passed us. Even the 67 year old retired guy from Florida (Bill Quaille). Bill camped with us one night and we chatted a bit. He's practicing for a long-distance cycling contest in France next year. I think he said that the total would be about 5000Km. I do remember that he said he felt naked without his guns. He said that he normally carries 3 hand guns but didn't bring them on this trip because of the difficulty in getting them across the border.
Times up. Gotta go. Love to all.
Brent
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