Lisa Stokes
Travel with a Bicycle Tourism and Advocacy Focus
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“Be prepared to fall. Everyone one does.”
“Be prepared to fall. Everyone one does.”, Elaine told me in a comment on my Cars and Bikes post two days ago. Last night I practiced getting my new cycling shoes into and out of the pedals, in the house against a wall. This morning Owen and I called on his friend Emma and…
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Doctor, Movie and Pick Ups
The day started with a trip to the ophthalmologist for Alun who has had a teary eye for months. Turns out the tear duct is blocked. We got some new eye drops to reduce inflammation and he is to massage the inside corner of his eyes. We go back in four weeks to see…
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Cars and Bikes
My day started at the garage today. The radio in our van was replaced after it stopped recognizing ipods and phones that were plugged into it. A few months after that it stopped working altogether and made a popping noise every few seconds whether or not the van was turned on. A computer reset…
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Running Around Again
Owen had two baby teeth, one on each side on the top, that should have been pushed out by the adult teeth but were instead clinging in and pushing his adult teeth out of line. So today the dentist pulled them. Owen appeared quite calm and replied that he wasn’t nervous when asked by…
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Small World
Today I rode my new bike to Caledon East for a coffee at Gabe’s Bake Shop. I’ve been using Mapmyride to track my rides. My best average speed for this 35 km round trip on my hybrid bike was 20.2 kph on a day with 8 kph winds. Today, on my new bike my…
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Why I Decided to Start Blogging
One word: forgetfulness. Yesterday, just before I started writing my blog for the day I thought, ” I must remember to write about winning the Let Your Green Show contest”. Then I began writing about my day beginning with the morning. I progressed through the day, proofed what I had written and then published.…
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How Do They Do that?
This morning I headed out to Georgetown to test again the second-hand road bike that I tested on Sunday night. On Wednesday I went to Cyclepath and talked to Christie about the used bike and also tried two new ones. They felt good but I was really unsure about spending the kind of money…
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A Day out at the AGO
Today Trystan, Owen and I decided to use one of the coupons in the 2014 Fun Pass that the Ontario government provides to schoolchildren in their report cards each year. I don’t think we have ever used one of the coupons before. We drove to Kipling subway station where the north lot was already…
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Running Around
Today was a day of running around not accomplishing much. I began by driving Megan to Mississauga Secondary School. She was told to be there from 8:30 to 10:30. It was her final day of her summer 2 credit co-op program. It is a 25 minute drive at that time of day. When we…
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Seven Repairs in Five Years
My day started with the seventh dishwasher repair in five years on my seven year old dishwasher. I think I have now spent more repairing it than I paid for it in the first place. I have used the same repairman for over a decade. He has repaired my current dishwasher and the one…
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