Lisa Stokes
Travel with a Bicycle Tourism and Advocacy Focus
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New York City – Day 3
I started the day with breakfast in the room consisting of the raspberries that I bought on the street yesterday, oatmeal from the hotel shop, and tea made with the kettle and tea bags provided by the front desk. I decided that I would walk down 42nd St. past Bryant Park, to Broadway, explore…
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New York City – Day 2
Michael was extremely quiet getting up and getting ready for work this morning and I didn’t week until he closed the door to leave just before eight. I open to be graded with a beautiful, bright and sunny, busy morning, full of buildings, vehicles honking, and pedestrians hurrying. I noticed the East River and…
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New York City – Day 1
Last year IBM spun out their Managed Services operations and employees to a new company called Kyndryl. Michael works In Network Servies and was sent to the new company. This week he is visiting the two New York City locations – 280 Park Avenue tomorrow, and 1 Vanderbilt Avenue next Monday. He did the…
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Lac Morency – Day 5 – Montreal
Sadly, our time in Lac Morency came to a close this morning, but at least we had a day of riding in Montreal to anticipate. The drive to Montreal was about an hour. Then the drive home was six hours plus stopping time. We still had groceries remaining, that we brought with us, that…
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Lac Morency – Day 4 – Prévost to Blaineville
It was minus one when we got up so we decided to relax a bit before heading out in the hope that the sun would come out and warm up the day. We headed south from Prévost. Only the first 3 or 4km were on grit today, with the rest paved. It was cold,…
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Lac Morency – Day 3 – Saint-Agathe-des-Monts to Mont-Tremblant
We decided to get an earlier start today since we had a 35 minute drive to Saint-Agathe-des-Monts, the turnaround point on our ride two days ago. We actually drove away a few minutes before the aspirational leaving time. It wasnt raining when we left, and the forecast was only 30% chance of rain, however,…
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Lac Morency – Day 2 -Rain
We knew rain was forecast to begin in the morning with the bulk of it early then tapering to an amount that isn’t terrible to ride in – at least that what’s the forecast said. It turned out that we should have been riding from 7am to 10 because when we arrived in Prévost…
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Lac Morency – Day 1 – Prévost to Saint-Agathe
The day started cool, but beautifully sunny, with light streaming into our accommodation. We made and ate breakfast, and then drove the narrow hilly road 8km to the P’Tit Train du Nord in Prévost. Here we are ready to leave Auberge du lac Morency, bikes loaded. There is plentiful free parking at many places…
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Lac Morency – Travel Day
Cindy has a time share that she needed to use, and given the pandemic she did not want to travel to the US, so she looked for a cycling friendly place in Canada, and invited me to join her at the Auberge du Lac Morency north of Montreal in the Laurentians. It is only…
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Welland Wine Country Loop – Day 6
We planned a route, starting in Welland, around wine country to the northwest of Welland. I started with a route that the Brampton Cycling Club created. They have an account on RidewithGPS with all their routes. I planned a route from Welland to the nearest point on the Helen Bick Memorial Niagara ride and…
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