Day 25 Part Two – Sesquecentury, plus tax: Weyburn to Souris to celebrate raising £5,000. After leaving the Subway in Stoughton, I had an inkling that I wasn’t going to settle for an ordinary day on the bike (as if any of these days are!) when all of you had made it possible to raise […]
Day 25 Part One – Weyburn for breakfast. I awoke this morning to discover that my target of raising £5,000 had been achieved! What a belter of a start to a day on the road, and thank you all so much for making this amazing achievement possible. But I don’t want to give you that! I […]
Day 24 – Assiniboia to Weyburn. About two or three years ago I was thinking about this trip and how to approach it: tenting vs motels, heavy panniers vs credit card, doing it vs not doing it. So to get a feel for a typical day I just dropped a finger down at random on the […]
Day 23 – Ponteix to Assiniboia. Every day I drop enough trail mix (as I scoop it from my handlebar bag and eat it while I ride along) to stop a family of ground squirrels from eating their close relatives for a week. I’m thinking of tipping everything else out of the bag and filling it […]
Day 22 – Swift Current to Ponteix (Notukeu Regional Park). Ponteix is a very quiet town. So quiet in fact that when I stopped at the only open restaurant in town for my lunch, I scared the waitress half to death when I suddenly moved across the room to refill my coffee. Today’s Distance (miles/km): 56 […]
Day 21 – Free day! In order to be able to get myself up to date, this free day posting will be a brief photo album! The Calgary Three have pressed on to Moose Jaw, I’ve had a very chilled-out (Father’s) day starting at the kids’ Swift Current Box Car Races (down the main drag […]
Day 20 – Gull Lake to Swift Current. A much shorter day, made just that bit longer by an unexpected shift in the wind, hitting any poor cyclists hard from the left and messing with your mind and your steering. I think I’ve been spoilt by the following winds of the last few days. Today’s […]
Day 19 – Medicine Hat to Gull Lake. After two days of cycling 100 miles-+ per day, I decided as I fell asleep last night to take it easier today and stop earlier in the day. But then I woke up, heard the wind blowing in strongly from the west, and thought “nah…lets do one […]
Day 18 – Bassano to Medicine Hat. Another day of immensely long, straight roads, this time mostly in bright hot sun all day. From the comfort of my armchair at home, I spent a lot of time thinking about the Rockies, and I just wondered what on earth this kind of riding would be like…..well, […]
Day 17 – Into the Badlands (Calgary to Bassano). Today was the day where instead of looking up at the immense scale of the terrain, as I have been doing right through Vancouver Island and then the Rockies, I looked out into the vast rolling space of endless prairie, known as the Canadian Badlands. Today’s […]
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