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Lisa Stokes

Travel with a Bicycle Tourism and Advocacy Focus

  • Awesome Autumn

    It was an awesome autumn day for a ride in the country.  I headed up Torbram Road only to encounter a road closure that sent me across Countryside Road to Airport Road and then back across Mayfield Road to Torbram.  Riding on Mayfield is not for the faint of heart.  One SUV passed me…

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  • Book of Mormon

    What a perfect autumn day it was today.  I started out with a quick bike ride in the cool of a perfectly still, sunny morning. The trees were changing colour at the Mayfield Golf Club. Upon my return home, I had a quick shower, then Lara and Joe picked up Michael and me and…

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  • Busy Saturday

    Patti and I met this morning to exercise for the first time in about a month.   She was away on vacation the past two Saturdays and the one before that had an appointment.  Prior to that we rode our bikes on the trail, as my knee was too swollen from falling off my bike…

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  • Tour De Mississauga (#tourdemississauga)

    What an awesome day I had today.  I have had the goal of riding the 100 kilometre route in the Tour de Mississauga today, since I rode the 60 kilometre route a year ago.  On July 1, I cycled 50 kilometres on my hybrid bike and was on track with my training programme.  However,…

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  • Friday September 19 – Ontario University Fair Day

    Today, Megan, Alun and I went to Toronto for the Ontario University Fair.  Megan has decided to apply to college, but needs to have two visits to these types of events for her Specialist High Skills Major designation on her high school diploma.  Alun is still a couple years away from needing to attend,…

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  • Sunday September 14 – Riding Up The Escarpment

    Next Sunday I am signed up to ride the 100 kilometre route in the Tour de Mississauga.  Last year I did the 60 kilometre route on my hybrid bike.  This year I have a road bike, but fell off it and hurt my knee on my first ride with clipped in shoes.  I bruised…

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  • School Construction, Ice Storm Comparison and Climbing

    The walls are finally going up at my children’s school this week.  Yesterday I counted twelve construction works on the site.  There might have been twelve visible on the site all summer if all the daily sightings were added together! Here are two pictures of the hardest hit street in my neighbourhood during the…

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  • Wednesday September 10 – Carpool to the Climb

    Tonight Trystan, Owen and I picked up my nephews, Jason and Ryan, and we had our third stair climbing training session at the hospital.  Before we got out of the car I took an usie (group selfie) to submit to this month’s Let Your Green Show contest for the carpool action.  Jason climbed up…

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  • Tuesday September 9 – Michael is off to the Old Country

    Today Michael flew to the UK to visit his mom for her 80th birthday.  He is flying to Birmingham, renting a car and driving to Bristol.

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  • Friday September 5 – Ice Storm Update

    Ice storm clean-up continues in Brampton.  Many damaged trees have yet to be cut down, let alone having their roots removed.  Who know when re-planting will begin.  We were fortunate as we have no ash trees which were the most damaged trees due to being compromised by the emerald ash borer.  Most of those…

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