McBride to Prince George This was one day I was looking forward to – making it to Prince George – meeting Sebastian and in a few days Sonja when she is back from the Arctic. I thought this would be a long but fairly easy day along the Fraser river.  However it turned out to […]

This was another very beautiful long day. It started cold (6 degrees) and with lots of mosquitoes but soon the heat became intense. Biking through Jasper National Park was a wonderful sight seeing adventure. The mountains are high and most have some snow on them.  In the morning light the textures of the mountains with […]

Niton Junction to Pocahontas campsite in Jasper National Park. 170 km Today was a very beautiful day that brought a dramatic change in scenery.  It was warm and clear with a slight breeze, mostly from behind. The foothills of the Rockies were a lot steeper than I had expected.  It went constantly up and down […]

This was a long day with many extremes. Just after I started in south Edmonton, it began pouring rain with strong north west winds.  I rode on the ring highway which is like a 400 series highway in Ontario where bicycles are allowed. It was so scary with the rainstorm, trucks whizzing by and the […]

Today was a rest day in Edmonton which started with a morning interview with Global TV at 8:30 am. It was a good interview – and here’s the link if you want to see it: http://globalnews.ca/video/716544/change-the-cycle-2 There were thunderstorms but I was lucky that I didn’t get poured on when I biked to the Global […]

Elk Island National Park to Edmonton Today was a short ride of 65 km to Edmonton where I stay with Pat and Danita, who are so kind to take me into their new home.  Colleen met Pat at a training workshop on Elder Abuse in London a few weeks ago and Pat said that they […]

“Slowly getting there – Vermilion to Elk Island National Park I started at 6 AM as the west wind already blew strongly all night long. It was only about 10 c when I started and it just made it to low 20s.The winds went to 50 km/ h so I kept it easy. Blue skies […]

There was an article in the Toronto Star about a new report from the Centre for Policy Alternatives that calls for a federal strategy to address violence against women.  For more information go to: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/07/11/violence_against_women_canada_needs_federal_strategy_report_says.html

This was a very different day from yesterday when I had a slight tailwind and it was about 35c. Today I had increasingly strong and cooling headwinds with the air dropping to 16 C over the day.  I also  crossed the border to Alberta in Lloydminster. It was a very slow ride. So I only […]

This turned out to be a very long, very hot, and exhausting day. Last night I found a wonderful place with some students.  Interesting that the woman’s name is Julia  Colleen.  She studied political science, which she partly did in Scandinavia, in order to compare their system with the Canadian.  We discussed many topics of […]