Lisa Stokes
Travel with a Bicycle Tourism and Advocacy Focus
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Hillsburgh 2024 – Day 2
Today we planned to do Barry’s second tile collection route, which again, were new tiles for him, but not for Cindy and me. He planned a coffee break at the Tin Roof Café in Erin, where we arranged for David and Dayle to meet us for lunch and treats, to celebrate Dayle’s 71st birthday.…
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Hillsburgh 2024 – Day 1
After attending Toronto Councillor Lily Cheng’s Community Ride, I drove us to Hillsburgh, where we are going to be staying for a week to look after Cindy‘s sister’s pets, while they are away. We arrived shortly before dinner, had an enjoyable meal, and enjoyed the hot tub before bed. It’s Barry first time staying…
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Willowdale Community Ride with Councillor Lily Cheng
Lily Cheng is the Toronto city Councillor for Willowdale. She has been working with Toronto BikeShare to bring stations to Willowdale. The area is getting nine stations in 2024, and three more in 2025. To encourage Willowdale residents to try biking and BikeShare, Councillor Cheng held a Community Ride on September 14, starting at…
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Erie Canalway – Day 13 – Niagara Falls to Brampton
We spent our final night at the same hotel at which we stayed the first night, which had a mediocre, carb heavy breakfast. We ate enough to satisfy our initial morning hunger, and then went back to the rooms to pack up, and for me to plan a route for us to explore Niagara…
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Erie Canalway – Day 12 – Albany to Niagara Falls by Train and Crossing the Border
We had breakfast in the hotel then went back to the room to pack everything, and met in the lobby for a short ride around Albany to do some more sightseeing. We left our panniers in a secure room so that we didn’t have extra weight while riding, since the route came back past…
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Erie Canalway – Day 11 – Exploring Albany
We slept in a little, had a later breakfast at the hotel, which was one of the better hotel breakfasts we have had on this trip, and left for a walking tour just after nine. There was a lot to see packed into just 4 km. Our first stop was a giant Dutch clog.…
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Erie Canalway – Day 10 – Amsterdam to Albany
We were thinking we would have breakfast at the restaurant in the Knights’ Inn in Amsterdam, since we couldn’t find anything else on our side of the river, and we didn’t want to take the time to ride across the river and then back, to continue on to Albany, but when we went downstairs…
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Erie Canalway – Day 9 – Utica to Amsterdam
The day dawned drier than expected. The choices at the so-called breakfast offered at the Days Inn this morning were quite dire, so we decided we would go across the street to McDonald’s. Unfortunately, most of their staff hadn’t shown up for work, so all they could serve us was coffee. The employee that…
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Erie Canalway – Day 8 – Syracuse to Utica
We left the hotel just before 730AM. I can’t say I really liked Syracuse, although I didn’t have a lot of time to explore it. I prefer Rochester and Buffalo. This was the view as we headed to the trail. It was pretty unappealing, although we did pass the New York Central Station. It…
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Erie Canalway – Day 7 – Weedsport to Syracuse
We headed out at 7:45 this morning after breakfast in the motel. Right off the bat I turned the wrong way, and then when I corrected myself, ran a red light. We were all still tired from yesterday’s long ride in the heat and humidity. It didn’t bode well for another very hot day,…
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