This was the first short day of the tour, but certainly not the last. We spent most of our day riding the ferries. The ride started out with the typical activities around breaking camp. We then headed to Nanaimo and after a couple unpleasant cycling-things like crossing some ramps on heavily-traveled highway we headed to [...]
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When we pulled into camp last night it was quite dark and only one person we know of was still awake (they gave us directions to the tent area as it was mixed with RV camping). When we woke up this morning to a bright sun and the campground owner in our site and immediately [...]
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I was invited to a small get-together at a bike touring friend’s house to meet with Salva, who has been on his own bike tour for 6 years now. Yes, that’s 6 years that he’s been on his tour. It was an evening with great conversation, awesome photos and video (and he provided a 43 [...]
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Take a look at the left-hand side of this web page. You’ll notice that there are a few links that don’t change from day to day. I just added one for my Pacific Coast Bike Tour so that those readers who are only interested in those posts can go there and ignore the other daily [...]
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I’ve had a few people ask about the tour and I’ve finally come up with a reasonable summary. I *was* going to just put the detail for all the days (which I’m still doing) but that’s probably a lot like making people watch all 10,000 of your vacation photos as you reveal the daily details [...]
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The campground we slept at last night ended up being right next to the main road, separated only from the highway by a covering of trees and hedge. So the traffic woke me up pretty early. As became the case for much of the tour it took me way too long to break camp and [...]
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011 was set as the first day of the Pacific Coast Bike Ride / Tour. Monday was Labor Day in both the US and Canada. Average daily traffic among the pacific coast route drops from 10,000 to 5,000 after that weekend and the weather is still good, so that made the most [...]
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Well I’m back. Where was I? I was on the first real vacation of my adult life, cycling around the Pacific Northwest. I’d been planning this for almost a year, but let’s go back a bit further for a minute. When I was 14 or so I was a mormon (no longer) and as such [...]
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Alex had a friend sleep over and they were playing well, so I decided another long ride was in order for the afternoon. After all, heavy rainstorms were in the forecast and I don’t get enough riding in that (and I love it). So I threw the basics (tools, water, electrolyte, rain gear) onto the [...]
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It’s easy to map a bike route when you drive it in advance, spend a commute or two exploring alternate routes and then riding variations once you have a safe, well-understood path down. It’s a bit different mapping a route through a city you haven’t been to in almost 20 years with only a city [...]
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