Tag: dad
Shout!outs
Meep: To Ahna “Kreegs” MacDonald and Roberta “Squeaky” Maize, Okanagon Level contributors to this trek. They have kept me in bananas and carrots. They have sustained me with their goodwill, light-hearts, and generosity. The Okanagon does not begin to describe the valleys through which Squeaks and Kreegs have carried me. They are vast canyons of [...]
Posted: October 20th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: Acadia National Park, Ahab, Ahna MacDonald, bananas, carrots, dad, Erie Canal, Joe Jones, Kreegs, Megan Sykes, Moby Dick, mom, Okanagon, Pequod, poker, Rachel Jones, Roberta Maize, Sean Clark, shoutouts, Squeaky, tires, Warren Gilles, West Quody Head, white whale
Comments: 2
Faces (mostly) from the road.
Native Guides Don and Karen Ryan in Saskatoon These two native guides, Don and Karen Ryan, cheerfully broke from their morning coffee to guide me first to a local tourist information centre (where the employee cheerfully advised me on the lack of nearby camping options) and then to a local bike shop (where I got [...]
Posted: September 29th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: Adam Biel, Anchorage, autism, Bike Doctor, Calgary, dad, Dave, Don Ryan, Edmonton, Foam Lake, Fraser, Gerald, Heyden, hobo, Karen Ryan, Manitoba, Maureen, Rennie, Rennie Grossman, Saskatoon, Sault Ste. Marie, Seeton, Tom
Comments: none
As far as Mattawa, Ontario…
Friday, August 28th, 2009 (118.3 miles) Hinton, Alberta Edson Niton Junction Nojack Cynthia (Cynthia RV Park & Campground) Saturday, August 29th, 2009 (69.0 miles) Cynthia Drayton Valley Alsike Breton Winfield (Winfields Lions Pioneer Park) Sunday, August 30th, 2009 (0.0 miles) Winfield Monday, August 31st, 2009 (73.3 miles) Winfield Village at Pigeon Lake Falun Wetaskiwin Bittern [...]
Posted: September 29th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: Alberta, Algoma Mills, Alsike, Battleford, Bittern Lake, Blind River, Borups Corners, Breton, Bruce Mines, Camrose, Cherrydale Golf Club, Clavet, Colonsay, Coniston, Cut Knife, Cutler, Cynthia, dad, Dafoe, Dauphin, Denholm, Desbarats, Dinorwic, Dorian, Drayton Valley, Dryden, Dugald, Edson, Elfros, Elie, Elma, Elstow, English River, Fabyan, Falun, Foam Lake, Gilbert Plains, Gladstone, Grandview, Guernsey, Hagar, Heyden, Hinton, Ignace, Insinger, Irma, Iron Bridge, Kakabeka Falls, Kenora, Kinsella, Langham, Lanigan, Leslie, Manitoba, Markstay, Marsden, Massey, Mathieu Racine, Mattawa, Maymont, McCreary, McKerow, Minnitaki, Mozart, Nairn Centre, Naughton, Neepawa, Neilburg, Nipigon, Niton Junction, Nojack, North Battleford, Northbay, Ontario, Oxdrift, Pays Plat, Plunkett, Portage La Prairie, Rabbit Blanket, Radisson, Rennie, Riding Mountain, Roblin, Rutherglen, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sault Ste. Marie, Schreiber, Serpent River, Shabaqua Corners, Sheho, Sowerby, Spanish, Spragge, Springside, Ste. Rita, Ste. Rose du Lac, Sturgeon Falls, TerracePay, Theodore, Thessalon, Thunder Bay, Upsala, Vermillion Bay, Verner, Village at Pigeon Lake, Viscount, Vivian, Wabigoon, Wahnapitae, Wainwright, Walford, Wawa, Webbwood, West Hawk Lake, Wetaskiwin, White River, Whitefish, Winfield, Winnipeg, Woodside, Wynyard, Yorkton
Comments: 1
Lost in Sault Ste. Marie.
After extensive work on my bike this morning, dad and I parted in search of *this* library. Apparently the tourist-oriented map we picked up was not to scale. As I made it to the library and dad has not yet arrived.
Posted: September 24th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: dad, Kulshan Cycles, Ontario, Sault Ste. Marie, spokes, true, wobble
Comments: 3
Greetings from White River, Ontario.
Been travelling for a couple days with Mathieu, a Quebecois who started in Banff and is headed toward Quebec City. My dad has been out here searching for me for a couple days, and we finally ran into each other yesterday on the road out of Marathon. Good to see dad.
Posted: September 22nd, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: dad, internet access, Jen's Place, Marathon, Mathieu Racine, moose, Ontario, Wawa, White River
Comments: 1
Retrospective: The Iron Curtain or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Waiting Room at the U.S. Canadian Oroville-Osoyoos Border Crossing.
Let me bitch and moan and be embarrassed a little bit here. I spent four-and-a-half hours trying to cross into Canada on Wednesday, August 19th. US-Canadian Border, 1st Attempt
Posted: September 4th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: dad, healthcare, Maxx Fanucci, Oroville, Osoyoos, rant, Russ Madison Jr., Windemere
Comments: 5
Dad rejoins me.
Dad at Coleman Dock On Tuesday, unbeknownst to me, my dad tried to rejoin me for the bike ride. He called my cell a few times, but I had it off to save batteries (and may not have heard the ring in my bag over the traffic noise of Highway 101 anyhow).
Posted: August 14th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: Aircrest Motel, dad, Discovery Bay, mocha, oysters, Port Angeles, Sequim Bay State Park, Taco Bell
Comments: none
Bitter parting.
Dad, Megan, and William at Mercer Island Originally uploaded by monkeychart Dad, Megan, and I set out early on Sunday. Megan was intending to ride as far as the Coleman ferry dock. Dad was intending to accompany me for a couple days….out to the coast and back.
Posted: August 14th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: Coleman Ferry Dock, dad, Hood Canal Bridge, Kingston, Megan Sykes, Mercer Island
Comments: none
Departure Date and Invite.
With my wheel finally here and me resigned to the belief that it may be working properly, my dad and I have settled on a departure date.
Posted: August 7th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
Tags: dad, departure, Mercer Island
Comments: 1