Today’s blog was written at great length, before crashing due to dodgy campsite wifi, and it looks like it was all lost. Suffice to say it was a long hot day full of interest and fascinating bloggable details, leaving me unable to face rewriting it all right now. I’ll do it when I next get […]
Day 9 – Okanagan Lake to Kelowna. A shorter day today to link up in Kelowna with Brant & Dagmar, family friends of Stewart and Gill’s who have very kindly offered to host me tonight. Right from the start the day felt like it was going to be a hot one, after a still, warm night. […]
Day 8 – Hedley to Okanagan Lake Provincial Park. This was the first day of my second week, which seems to have passed very quickly, and what a great day it was, mainly for all the people I met. It was another chilly start so it took a few minutes for my legs to get […]
Let me set the scene – I’ve ridden 4 miles into Hedley and hitched my trusty steed to the Hitching Post, my saddle bags are off, and I’m slaking my thirst after corralling my herd.. (that’s enough corralling. Ed). This is the ex-gold mining town, where Sarah has just taken my order for a big […]
It’s odd to sleep beside a big river (the Similkameen, stress on “Milk“) for one night, then cycle for 60-odd miles over steep passes and down huge valleys, only to end sleeping beside the same river again. The difference is that every mountain stream has fed into it as it descended from Manning Park for […]
I was completely off-grid in the mountains (not even a shower block at the riverside campground) so there’ll be at least a day’s delay on this post, maybe the next one too! Feeling like I’d just sort of slunk into Hope in the rainstorm and kept to myself at the motel apart from a trip […]
I’ve started using a new innovation today – a map! (Paul Whitehouse voice) “Aren’t maps brilliant?” Unfortunately I put the first pin mark in the wrong place. Can’t get the hang of this new technology. Just FYI, the starting point today should be under the first “i” of Chilliwack. The name Chilliwack reminds me of […]
I’m piggybacking some cafe wifi to let you know that, due to popular demand after I mentioned it in the blog, and thanks to the tireless efforts of Jacob E. Buckton, there is now a link to the insanely catchy and hauntingly beautiful Staves song Winter Trees, in a cover version by Jacob and the […]
Today I travelled up the wide valley that leads from Delta, B.C., all the way into the mountains, but stopped well before that! A hotel in Chilliwack was the goal today, and the pleasure of being able to cycle with my host, Stewart, which really made my day. He couldn’t come all the way with […]
Today was a day of intense contrasts, from the extraordinary grandeur of the vast cedar and pine forests in the interior, to the hustle and bustle of the Trans-Canada Highway nearer the coast. Today’s Distance (miles): 76 Time in saddle: 6h 15 Max/min temp (°c): 24°/10° Climb/descend (feet) : 3,606 / 3586 Calories used: 3,145 […]
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