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    Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

    I gave it a go but all I could work out is a hamburger restaurant is a clue to the rainy season, my poor grandma who knew many Eastern European languages would have been so disappointed in my efforts
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    Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

    yep, which is why on our visits to the Cook Islands I'm somewhat better off on a bike than driving a car, mind you some of the locals there choose either side depending on what is most convenient to them
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    Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

    a little unsettling every time you crested a hill on "the wrong side of the road"
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    Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

    I keep thinking my local rides this time of the year are not noteworthy or report worthy, So I thought I would try R2R's strategy of finding the extraordinary in the ordinary - um, no I definitely don't have her eye for observing and interpreting - so the following is just the ordinary -...
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    Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

    Finally, got 2021 underway for biking, close to 40 km around our country residence and didn't see anybody on any of the roads and trails - our countryside continues the mix of brown grass with snow blotches - couldn't help thinking about David's Aussie postings complete with the ice cream...
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    2020 : Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

    I noticed David's family has that as well, some kind of page wire with a couple strands of barb wire on top (maybe?) had me thinking of kangaroos or at least some kind of Aussie critter bigger than the bunny
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    2020 : Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

    With a winter storm watch for southwestern Alberta with up to 50 cm of snow forecast it was even more incentive to get out for a good pedal during the last day of our warm chinook winds - actually I was going to head out yesterday but after tying skates for the grandkids and "MeeMaw" my bike...
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    2020 : Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

    It is always difficult to follow David's entries but the latest with blooming flowers, green grass, and sparkling water makes one wish that a successful vaccine will put an end to this pandemic and we can return to our travels - particularly for those of us from the northern regions who are...
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    2020 : Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

    not a ride report per se more why I couldn't go out on an absolutely beautiful, sunny day - after lobbying for a new family partner on our rural property, our latest addition decided to round up "most" of the Christmas decorations that Charl spent a good time on the weekend displaying . . ...
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    2020 : Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

    amazing weather for our part of the world, spent about 3 hours pedalling about on a day with no wind and above zero temperatures, the not very clear picture below is actually the setting for a "fishing" story, about directly behind my handlebars you will see a couple of young fellows ice...
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    Show us a recent sunset during your ride!

    sunset on the Rocky Mountains, East Kootenays of British Columbia
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    2020 : Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

    another ride in the east Kootenays - Windermere (Canadian version) valley - as the roads and trails ice up one can keep a faster pace going up than down but the e-bike is such a motivator to keep riding through the winter months where my regular mtn bike would have been stored for the season by now
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    2020 : Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

    Today's ride is back in the East Kootenays of British Columbia where we have our home away from home. Felt kind of silly with the bike and bike rack on the back of vehicle driving out from Alberta in a nasty snow/wind storm - arrived and the wheels were so frozen they would not turn. But...
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    2020 : Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

    It is always difficult to follow one of David's inspiring photos although his latest definitely has some spooky Halloween qualities. Today's ride followed literally thousands of Canadian geese cleaning up the stubble fields and making such a racket. Perhaps they were arguing about when to head...
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    2020 : Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

    rural Saskatchewan truly has a slower pace of life, drivers slow down sharing the country roads with those of us on bikes and almost always a big wave and smile - speaking of crazy names one of the cities is called Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan -
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    2020 : Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

    Finally home from 3 weeks in the province of Saskatchewan where my son and daughter have both established ranches. Equal time was spent with both families doing the fall round-up of cow-calf pairs and sorting but more importantly spending time with our grand-children. Charl and I managed to get...
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    2020 : Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

    Today's ride took Charl and I along the "Old Coach Trail" that lies between Invermere and Radium along the Columbia Valley in the East Kootenays. I assumed the old coach trail referred to the horse pulled stage coaches but was surprised to read the trail was built in the 1930's for the "tin...
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    2020 : Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

    great info there re biking and camping B.C. (before covid) and border closures we had planned to spend a month in the fall in your area, fingers crossed for next year!
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    2020 : Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

    To quote Rab H this weekend provided a pair of awesome rides. The smoke from the U.S. fires lessened (thoughts and prayers to our southern neighbors dealing with these devastating forest fires) and we could once again see the peaks along the surrounding ranges (Purcells and Rocky mountains). On...
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    2020 : Our Rides in Words, Photos & Videos

    our annoying black and white ones are pretty cautious around me, could it be that they notice I enjoy "skeet" shooting clay pigeons with the 12 guage,
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