A MARKET, A SHIPYARD, A SEA SWIM. A REST DAY! I’ve been made so welcome at this wonderful campground, and have so enjoyed the comfortable, relaxed atmosphere – as well as the great sea swimming – particularly after the assorted struggles of the first stormy week of this trip, that I’ve made a management decision […]
New State, new map! If Route 1 continues like this, I’m going to have difficulty leaving it. The traffic was light, the weather amazing (in fact it was properly hot), the scenery stunning, and the hard shoulder (mostly) wide and smooth. What more could you ask? The day started with a drying session in the […]
We’ve completed Stage 1 of this trip, Nova Scotia to New Brunswick, and there hasn’t been a single dull moment. Today marks the start of Stage 2, the USA. Please reset your watches, because the clocks just went back an hour! I had a chat with a camp warden yesterday evening, and I told him […]
I completely forgot to mention yesterday that on arriving (and disembarking) at St John we entered the second Canadian province of this trip, New Brunswick. We’re heading west on Route 1 today, as far as Upper Letang, then dropping down south on Rte 172 towards Passamaquoddy Bay and the Deer Island ferry (another ferry – […]
I’m wet. As a result of this wetness – which is comprehensive, and came from only the finest of Atlantic rainwater, delivered from above between the hours of 2am and [enter any time you like here, it doesn’t make any difference] – I’ve changed my plan for today and booked myself a motel room, a […]
The plan today was for a shortish ride to Annapolis Royal, the old capital of Nova Scotia (before Halifax grabbed that honour in 1749). But during the night something happened that forced me to change my plans (spoiler alert – it’s not that serious) (Stats are a bit approximate I’m afraid, because my bike computer […]
We’ve started! At last! Welcome to this bike ride travelling down the entire length of the Eastern Seaboard, starting in Canada. I must admit that there was a secret reason why I chose to start this whole crazy adventure from near West Sydney this morning, rather than starting Day 1 at the hotel in Halifax […]
I had a classic conversation yesterday as I waited for my room to be cleaned, where I was mispronouncing a place name without even knowing it. I was telling Bob, the minivan driver, that I’d spent a night camping beside the beautiful Bras D’or lake near Sydney NS, his home town. “Where?’, he said. I […]
My Air Canada flight had a great new interactive 3D map feature, which let me trace my route across Canada and America with a swipe of the finger like Google maps. I then watched a movie that included a scene which mirrored my own debate about where I should start this ride from: The airport […]
I’m delighted to say that my second attempt to leave the country has been a lot more successful than the first. Susie started referring to our abandoned journey to the airport yesterday as our ‘shakedown drive’. The assorted cardboard I’m using as my disposable luggage didn’t bother the Air Canada staff in the slightest, which […]
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