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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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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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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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