Start: Fort Stevens State Park, Oregon Finish: Bay City, Oregon Distance: 99.2k Elevation: 997 meters Today we had a dry day! We had a wee bit of rain when we were trying to break camp, but once we got on the road not a drop. Beautiful Day. A fair number of hills. The most elevation … Continue reading May 24th →

Start: Brucepoint County ParkFinish: Fort Stevens State Park OregonDistance: 99.5kElevation: 654 meter We made it to Oregon! Another rainy day. Not quite as wet as yesterday, but pretty consistent rain all the time we were riding. Then it cleared and we had beautiful clear skies in the afternoon again. Our campsite for tonight is gigantic. … Continue reading May 23rd →

Start: Schafer State Park Finish: Brucepoint County Park Distance: 80.8k Elevation: 408 (747) meters I have two numbers for the elevation today. The numbers from my bike GPS are 408, but that is suspect. There were a couple of times when I was chugging along, barely making 10-12K but the GPS said I was going … Continue reading May 22nd →

Start: Dosewallips State Park Finish: Shafer State Park Distance: 95k Elevation: 851 meters Today was cook duty day for Necla and I. After breakfast I took over driving the truck and after Lunch Necla joined me to go grocery shopping in Shelton. Cook team is a lot of work but it is only every fifth … Continue reading May 21st →

Start: Sequim Finish: Dosewallips State Park Distance: 88.8k Elevation: 821 meters A bit more riding today. Particularly for I and the David’s who added a few extra kilometers with a scenic route. We left our campground on the outskirts of Sequim and tried to pick up the Olympic Discovery Trail again. Unfortunately the bridge over … Continue reading May 20th →

start: Victoria finish: Sequim distance: 28.8k elevation: 261 meters It was an easy riding day, but trying to settle into the camping routine makes everything take twice as long. We caught the coho ferry in Victoria to Port Angles, then road to Sequim. Good road all the way, almost all of it on the Olympic Discovery Trail. … Continue reading May 19th →

This blog will cover the exploits of our 12 intrepid travelers on the Cross Canada Cycle Touring Society’s 2015 Pacific Coast tour. The tour starts tomorrow the 19th from Victoria and concludes on June 10th in San Francisco. I’ll be attempting to post an article for each day with the stats for the day, a … Continue reading Welcome →

Borden-Carleton to Charlottetown ‚ 62k Everyone did different distances today as we tried to maximize our visit to PEI. Dave and Al went to Summerside before going to Charlottetown, George went to Kensington, Eric and I rode on the former rail bed to Charlottetown and met Ken on it a few times. Dave and Mary … Continue reading final report, Nancy O’Higgins St. John’s, Nfld. →

Quebec City to St. Jean Port Jolie 120k Our full day off in Quebec City left us enchanted with the city. Sandra says Quebec is her favourite province for cycling, and Quebec City her favourite city to visit. Al, Sandra and I left the residence mid-morning to walk the 5k to the old city on … Continue reading 15 August report, Nancy O’Higgins Charlottetown, P.E.I. →

Ottawa After we eventually got our rooms in the residence, we were given a large conference room where we could keep our bikes and where we could set up our sodden tents to dry indoors. The first night, Irene and I walked for a couple of hours to get our bearings, then took a double-decker … Continue reading 8 August report, Nancy O’Higgins Ottawa, Ont. →

Snippets: Or things I forgot to put in at the right time. Al saw a big semi advancing on him in his mirror at the same time as he saw a billboard through the corner of his other eye proclaiming: “Prepare to meet thy maker.” When Marina was getting ready to leave us in Winnipeg … Continue reading 30 July report, Nancy O’Higgins Sault Ste. Marie to Ottawa, Ont. →

In Thunder Bay our friends at the bike shop told us we had to eat at Hoito’s restaurant while we were there. Ken and I were the first ones to find it at breakfast on our day off. I had salted fish which turned out to be delicious salmon which came with mashed potatoes and … Continue reading 16 July report, Nancy O’Higgins Thunder Bay to Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. →

A bunch of us bused into Winnipeg from Selkirk and sightsaw. We bought out the bike department at Mountain Equipment where we all met by coincidence. Bike shorts went flying into change rooms, Canada shirts, in honour of the next day, July 1, many cans of SuperLube, bike cleaner, etc. etc. Mary showed us that … Continue reading 8 July report, Nancy O’Higgins Selkirk, Man. to Thunder Bay, Ont. →

Father’s day in Saskatoon was marked by presents given to the men in the group by the five women, with Marina making a funny and articulate MC. Each of the presents had been purchased several days before the event and we forgot why some of them were appropriate, so we had each man guess why … Continue reading 30th June report, Nancy O’Higgins Saskatoon to Selkirk →

The way out of Drumheller was up, of course and the first 21k was accompanied by a side wind. Turning right to Hanna we faced 11k of construction but with a fabulous tail wind. We all arrived at Hanna by 12:30. Why do we always have a tail wind when we have a short day. … Continue reading 21st June report, Nancy O’Higgins Drumheller, Alberta to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan →