Pedaling South

I’ll let this one speak for itself. Of course, it’s just a number. A really, really high number.
Have a great day!

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Everyone we met on the road in California said some variation of the same thing: be afriad of Tijuana. Apparently they felt it was their civic duty to cast a cloud of dread over the next stage of our journey. Well, they succeeded, in part. I felt a thrill running through me from the moment [...]

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Outside the church we stayed at in Rainier, Oregon, I tried trueing my rear wheel, which had gotten suddenly and unaccountably wobbly. I immediately noticed my rear rim was cracked right down the center. “So that’s what that noise was crossing the bridge…” I thought.
I had to loosen the rear brakes completely and didn’t [...]

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Regardez bien ce dindon.

Nous roulions près de Sayward sur la 19, la route qui longe la côte est de l’Île de Vancouver. Il pleuvait. Soudainement, nous apercevons un dindon à l’entrée d’une ferme. Il est immense et nous regarde avec attention. Il ne bouge pas, mais fait visiblement le guet devant la ferme de [...]

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It just isn’t the Yukon without a bit of snow…
Our first day back on the bikes after our break in Whitehorse, we rode a modest distance to Marsh Lake. There we met Peter, who we’d connected with through Warm Showers, an internet site where fellow bike travellers can offer and receive hospitality.
Peter is a [...]

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We’re now resting and refuelling in Whitehorse in preparation for tomorrow morning’s departure (Thursday). The vast tracts of tundra and black spruce now seem a world away as we sip espresso in a local bakery and look forward to sleeping in a bed for the third (!) night in a row. Since our arrival we’ve [...]

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Nous sommes arrivés au YUKON, en même temps que l’hiver.
We’re in the Yukon!!! Ah yes, the balmy Yukon. Palm trees, coffee and bananas grow on the other side of yonder snow-covered mountains… of that we feel quite certain. 
Chaque jour a son combat. Avant hier, c’était l’armée de mouches noires et de maringouins qui n’en voulaient [...]

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Despite weeks of internet searching for the cheapest way to fly with our bicycles to Alaska, we were asked to pay an additional and unexpected $100 US for each bike upon arrival at the check-in counter yesterday morning. Our carrier charges all of their economy travellers a flat rate for every piece of luggage, and, [...]

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