by timshazz | Apr 13, 2019 | Cycling in North America
Evangola State Park to Westfield: (72kms) From Evangola State Park, we followed Lakeshore Drive (Highway 5) along Lake Erie as it wound its way around the shoreline past hundreds of seasonal holiday homes and villages. The road rose and fell but never steeply enough...
by timshazz | Apr 12, 2019 | Cycling in North America
Foreward: Having done a couple of housesits in Ontario and waited for the weather to fine up, we had made our way down to Crystal Beach, adjacent to the US border, and were now ready to join the Adventure Cycling Association’s Northern Tier route and head west...
by timshazz | Apr 12, 2019 | Cycling in North America
Toronto to Burlington: (72kms) Toronto Waterfront, ready to ride around Lake Ontario The streets of urban Toronto are vastly different from our ride so far. Our route from Orillia had been tough, with hills and busy highways to negotiate, but today’s ride to...
by timshazz | Apr 11, 2019 | Cycling in North America
D Day: Port Severn to Orillia (45kms) Shazz and I take one last deep breath … and we’re ready to go Winter had returned! It was cold and overcast, but at least it wasn’t raining for our first day of our new adventure on the bikes. Fully loaded and...
by timshazz | Apr 11, 2019 | Cycling in North America
Foreward: Our Airbnb in Barrie, north of Toronto This year we have decided to cycle on the Adventure Cycling Association (ACA) Northern Tier Route. An epic route beginning in Bar Harbour, Maine and rolling across the US to its eventual end in Anacortes, Washington....