Hope to Sunshine Valley( Formerly the Tashme Internment Camp)
July 28, 2021 The Hope Slide, the high point on today’s ride. Today’s ride: 25 kms (but 850 metres of climbing) Trip total: 255 kms ... Read More
Sunshine Valley to Manning Park Lodge
July 29, 2021 56 kms We had a great ride up to Allison Pass from Sunshine Valley. Our knees were fine and although the climb ... Read More
Manning to Hedley: BC is Burning
July 30, 2020 Today 68km. Forestry Camp Sight on Old Hadley Road before the smoke. Ruth: 5:00 PM Gord and I are sitting ... Read More
Back to Allison Summit in a Ford
July 31, 2021 Today: 68 Kms mostly down Valerie, Perry, Dave and Kari have been friends since they were in grade school in the ... Read More
Slow Return on the Mystery Tour
August 4, 2021 Kilby General Store, Harrison Mills Ruth: Hope to Mission: 91 kms Our ride back from Hope to Mission was completely different from ... Read More
Pre Trip Paranoia
September 13, 2021 Gord now has a folding Bike Friday too. They are packed and ready to fly. Ruth: We are climbing out of our ... Read More
The best cure for jet lag is a bike ride and swim.
Santa Cruz da Graciosa A windmill near Santa Cruz Natural swimming pool at the North end of Graciosa Ponta da Barca September 17, 2021Ruth: We ... Read More
The Caldera
Ruth: Today we spent the day cycling up, into and around the caldera on Graciosa. It was a stiff, steady climb up the flank of ... Read More
Donkeys at the end of the road
We are running out of roads on Graciosa. Our current challenge has been to criss cross around the island and cycle all of the paved ... Read More
An extra day on Graciosa
The fellow working at the tourist office proudly told me that there had been no ferry cancellations this year. There was, however, one yesterday. The ... Read More