Lisa Stokes
Travel with a Bicycle Tourism and Advocacy Focus
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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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Sunday September 7 – Wicked and Some Toronto Theatre History
Alun likes musical theatre in general and Wicked in particular. He often listens to the soundtrack on his phone. When we learned that Wicked was coming to Toronto we asked him if he would like tickets for his birthday and he did. So back in May, when tickets first went on sale, he and…
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Saturday September 6 – Another Fall
Patti wasn’t available for a run this morning so I had a bit of a sleep-in and a lazy breakfast. Then Trystan, Owen and I headed out to run errands. We started by hitting the shoe store for indoor shoes for school. They have the same size feet this year. Then Staples for a…
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Wednesday September 3 – School, Power Outage and Climbing
The day started with wet feet again as we walked on the grass to get around the construction at the school. Once again there were no construction workers in sight. To keep the children safe from moving construction vehicles long parallel fences were set up from the road to the back of the school…
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Friday August 29 – Final Day of Golf Camp
Parents were invited to come an hour early for pickup today so they could see their children putt and chip and to have a buffet lunch. Owen enjoyed his week at golf camp. He was especially excited that lunches were included. It was a beautiful day to be out on the course. Blue skies…
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