Tag: canada
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Estrie: the Eastern Townships, September 18 – 24, 2026
Montreal is eight hundred fifty miles straight north from Raleigh/Durham, almost exactly the same distance as New Orleans, just in the opposite direction. On American Airlines it would be two – one hour flights, connecting in PHL. Philadelphia airport may have issues but it features sometimes genuinely local food. At 11:00 AM I had just…
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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.…
