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2023 Gaspésie Daily Log
Following is the unfiltered writing from my trip journal. Saturday, 8/19/23 10:27 a.m. Matapedia We rode about 16 miles along the Riviere Restigouch. Pleasant riding; easy, long uphills, headwind but not bad, light traffic, shoulders not always great but road is good. Temp is perfect, clouds clearing. We’re at a lovely rest stop on the…
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Campground or Motel?
It used to be that, traveling on a budget, we always sought out a campground. Staying in a motel was only an option if the weather was bad or we couldn’t find a campground. Now in our elder years, we are a little more inclined to seek out a bit of luxury. A comfortable bed…
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‘O Canada’
We’ve bicycled all over Canada – British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec. It’s a wonderful country.
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Memorable Moments on the Gaspesie
On Saturday morning, August 19, 2023, we left our car at a Warm Showers home in Campbellton, New Brunswick and rode across the bridge to Quebec to begin our bicycle ride around the Gaspee Peninsula. We completed our journey thirteen days later, on Thursday, August 31. Thirteen days with no fast-food restaurants and no chain…
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Parlez-vous l’Anglais?
Our trip this year reinforced all that we love about the French province of Canada.
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HILLS!
The road that wraps around the Gaspee Peninsula is part of Quebec’s Route Verte, a network of bicycle routes throughout Quebec. Ever since Rob and I first heard about it, we’ve been wanting to ride it, but twice when we set our sights on it, a health issue got in the way. This had to…
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A Guided E-Bike Tour?
That’s not how we bicycle. But we did it anyway. On April 28, 2023, Rob and I embarked on our first ever guided bicycle tour. As I mentioned in my previous post, my friend Mac and his wife Suzie invited us to join them on a tour of the Istria Peninsula in Croatia, sponsored by…
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Finding My Grandparents’ Homeland (that no longer exists)
There is no bicycling in this post. But this journey wouldn’t have happened without an invitation to join a bicycling trip in Europe, so consider it bicycle related. I was just over a week into my recovery from back surgery last November when I received an email from Mac, a high school friend I’d reconnected…
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Veloroute des Bleuets
June 25, 2023 This is my story about our 4-day bicycle ride in the summer of 2022, when I was trying to pretend I could still have fun even though I was living with extraordinary daily pain. (I would go ahead with spinal surgery in October – a level one spinal fusion and decompressive lamenectomy…
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An Ending & A Beginning
DAY 43: Sunday, May 22, 2022 – Our 39th Anniversary! This writeup of our last day has been a long time coming. Since finishing this trip, I have been unhappily immersed in a medical nightmare that is now, hopefully, coming to an end. I’ll say more about it after you read about our happy ending.…
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