Category: Canada trips
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Toronto to Montreal, part two, June 24 – July 2, 2024
Most of New York State is referred to as “upstate” but I was farther north than that, a few miles south of the Canadian border, almost four hundred miles north of New York City and about eighty miles above of Syracuse NY. I was cycling alone on a country road, a road as narrow as…
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Toronto to Montreal; the first half, with Lyman, June 16-24, 2024
Canada is a parallel universe to America. It is just like America, until it is not. Could I document some differences? I flew north with bicycle to investigate. Toronto and Montreal are not that far away, each only about 850 miles from my home in Chapel Hill NC, about the same distance as New Orleans.…
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Downriver, 400 miles northeast from Montreal, July 20-28, 2019
Would rural Quebec would be something like rural parts of the USA, but everyone speaks French? With my friend Lyman and I set out to discover Quebec in eight days of cycling. In planning this trip I discovered a basic fact: Quebec has been built as a collection of settlements along the St.…
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Detroit to Buffalo via Southern Ontario, 7/31 – 8/5, 2017
I got an opportunity to bicycle across southern Ontario in Canada; the north shore of Lake Erie. It would give me an opportunity find out; is Canada really different? This trip came about when my friend Tom offered me a ride in his car from North Carolina up to the Midwest, where he would be…
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