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Lisa Stokes

Travel with a Bicycle Tourism and Advocacy Focus

  • Calgary – Day 3

    I was a bit sore after yesterday’s ride on the heavy, wide barred, mountain bike and was doing some stretching after breakfast. Cat joined me. We drove to a bike rental place about a 15 minute drive south of where we are staying. We were both much happier with the bikes we rented today.…

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  • Calgary – Day 2

    We borrowed Patti‘s son’s car today to drive to Canmore, where we rented bikes and rode to Banff. Once we were on the highway, there were beautiful views of the mountains, all the way. We reserved the bikes online last night, and chose mountain bikes as they were less expensive than the road bikes,…

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  • Calgary – Day 1

    Patti and I are exploring Calgary this week, staying with her son. Our respective husbands dropped us at the airport just before 8am. We were flying Westjet from Terminal 3 which was very quiet with lots of self check-in terminals and baggage drop off lanes available. Toronto Pearson airport has a new security appointment…

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  • Mont-Tremblant – Day 10

    We packed and took it down to the car. Fortunately, we had an elevator to take us down from the 12th floor. It’s always easier to pack to go home – no choices about what to pack and, when you have brought food, if you’ve planned correctly, you have eaten most of it. We…

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  • Mont-Tremblant – Day 9 – Ottawa

    Apologies dear readers for leaving yesterday’s blog on a cliffhanger and taking a few days to write today’s. We decided to take a walk before breakfast, to retrace last night’s walk, to try to find Cindy‘s key card. The first place we stopped was the bridge on Laurier Avenue over the canal where I…

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  • Mont-Tremblant – Day 8 – Ottawa

    The heat wave was forecast to continue so we planned to do a 14 km ride I found on the “Ottawa Rural Routes” Ride with GPS account, followed by a visit to the air conditioned comfort of the National Gallery of Art. I love the spiral staircase at Laurier Avenue. We turned too soon…

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  • Mont-Tremblant – Day 7 – St-Jovite, Montebello, and Ottawa

    We packed everything up, loaded the car, drove to the sister resort to return our keys, and then parked in a the shady spot in Mont-Tremblant Village. It was already 25° and we were driving to Ottawa today so, we decided to just ride back to St-Jovite for a coffee, and to experience an…

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  • Mont-Tremblant – Day 6 – St-Jovite, Sentier des Cimes, Centre des villégiature Tremblant

    It was already hot by the time we were ready to ride from the apartment this morning. There are two buildings and a swimming pool on the site. The one behind us has outdoor staircases, but ours does not. We were heading for Sentier des Cimes, a tree top walk in Mont-Tremblant National Park.…

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  • Mont-Tremblant – Day 5 – Guérette to Mont-Laurier

    The day began with a flat tire for me, caused by breaking the valve when I tried to pump the tire up. Fortunately, it happened in the apartment and I was able to replace the tube relatively quickly. After breakfast in the apartment, we picked up lattes at a different café in the village.…

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  • Mont-Tremblant – Day 4 – Nominingue to Guérette

    We had breakfast in the apartment, then drove to the other resort to check in, then to a coffee shop Mont-Tremblant Village to get lattes to drink while we drove to Nominingue, which is the northernmost point to which we cycled to last fall. I get the sense that the trail hasn’t officially opened…

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