This bike touring blog post was written about the day's ride between Duncan and Victoria. Another puncture, but fortunately I was getting good at fixing them by now! Cycling out of Duncan (Blog post written: Sep 20 2009) I found it hard to focus today on the cycling, as my mind kept wandering. The beauty and the curse of cycling, is that you have plenty of time to think, and I use this … [Read more...]

Another night of heavy rain, and then it was time to cycle from Porticeau Cove to Duncan in Canada. The border with the USA was getting ever nearer! A heavy night's rain in a Vaude tent (Blog post written: Sep 19 2009) It rained heavily during the night, and I awoke to a damp tent. The quality of the Vaude tents has certainly dropped from when I first started using them thirteen years ago … [Read more...]

After a nice breakfast, it was time to cycle from Cat Lake to Porticeau Cove as I continued cycling across Canada and toward the US border. Video of me washing dishes (Blog post written: Sep 18 2009) I think I filmed this video at Cat Lake in the morning before cycling towards Porticeau Cove. Early days of YouTube and my channel! Leaving Cat Lake A bit of rain through the night, and a … [Read more...]

After a couple of days working on a farm in Pemberton, it was time to resume the bike tour across Canada once more. Today, I cycled from Pemberton to Cat Lake. Cycling from Pemberton to Whistler (Blog post written: September 2009) Anna had left early in the morning to go to a farmers market, so we had said our goodbyes the night before. All breakfasted up, packed, and loaded, I left her a … [Read more...]

This was my second day of working on a farm in Pemberton for a potato harvest. It was a nice couple of days spent off the bicycle during my bigger bike tour from Alaska to Argentina. Back to the Farm (Blog post written September 16 2009) This was my second day of working on the farm in Pemberton. An early start today saw us cycling to the farm for 08.00. First job was to collect six dolavs … [Read more...]