Thursday 25 July 2024 to Tuesday 30 July 2024, 1084 miles. This next part of the journey takes us out of the Yukon, Canada and into Alaska, a state of the United States. We rode 2 fantastic roads, the Top of the World Highway, a road I travelled in the opposite direction in 2016 and […]
Dawson City, a gold rush town in the late 1800’s
Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 July 2024, 0 miles I am looking forward to two days in Dawson City. It’s a town I have some remember well from when I was last here in 2016. It will be good to explore the town and reacquainting myself with its places of interest. Al, Steve and I […]
To Banff, foothills, mountains and a campsite with lots of rules about how to avoid bears
Feature image is of the Watson Lake Sign Post Forest We are heading to Dawson City for a rest day of the bike, it’s a long ride, it will be a week before we get there. We had a lot of fun and some adventures on the way including camping in Jurassic Park, more about […]
Time for a rest
Sunday 14 July to Monday 15 July 2024, NO MILES I need time to recuperate, the ride across Canada has been full of interesting things and people, a really good ride, nevertheless I am exhausted and really looking forward to sometime off the bike. The apartment I booked in downtown Calgary fitted the bill nicely, […]
Ride across Canada, its further that flying from the UK to Canada
Thursday 4 July 2024 to Saturday 13 July 2024, 2676 Miles It’s a startling fact, flying from London UK to Halifax, Nova Scotia is 2830miles, travel by road from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Vancouver is 3718miles. When you talk to Canadians about travel they measure the journey in hours not miles, or their case kilometres. […]
Looking forwards to a day of the bike, doing laundry and resting
Tuesday 2 July to Wednesday 3 July 2024, 221 miles Tuesday 2 July 2024, Phil, one of the friends I am travelling with met Pascal as he sailed with his bike around the Darien Gap. They kept in touch and we have been invited to spend 2 nights with him at his home in Saguenay. […]
The Trans Labrador Highway, 715 miles of near total isolation
Saturday 29 June 202 to 1 July 2024, 1083 miles Saturday 29 June 2024, The Trans Labrador Highway is one of those roads that we don’t have in the UK or even Europe, long, very long and isolated. We caught the ferry at 8.00am for the 1hour 45 minute crossing from St Barbe to Sablon […]
A long ride, the Trans Canada Highway across Newfoundland
Tuesday 25 June to Friday 28 June 2024, 1041 miles Tuesday was going to be a long ride to get to the town of St John’s, a town on Newfoundland at the most easterly part of Canada. The journey from Deer Lake was pretty straight forward in the end, tarmac all the way, with sufficient […]
2 hour queue for a ferry to Newfoundland
Monday 24 June 2024, 290 miles total on Sunday and Monday Yesterday we rode to North Sydney from Meat Cove, it was a short drive, so we followed a gravel track to see if we could get to Cape North Lighthouse, the gravel track ended so we turn round. We arrived at our hotel in […]
Meat Cove, interesting name!
Saturday 22 June 2024 200 miles Today I am heading to a campsite at Meat Cove, an interesting name, I hope it lives up to my expectations! The ride to the campsite takes us to the Cabot Trail, the road signs along the way announce how important the trail is to tourism in the area. […]