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Lisa Stokes

Travel with a Bicycle Tourism and Advocacy Focus

  • Peterborough and the Kawarthas Cycling Odyssey – Day 4

    Today we decided to ride Route 2A: The Cottage Country 80. It’s another ride from the Peterborough and Kawarthas website. Last night I downloaded the ride from the website, and did auto tracing so that we would have voice cues. It was only this morning that I realized I should look for a place…

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  • Peterborough and the Kawarthas Cycling Odyssey – Day 3

    When we got up this morning at 7am the sky was very overcast and the ground wet. Shortly it started raining. We ate breakfast and were lingering when the sun came out. We sprang into action, getting into our cycling clothes, choosing a route, and headed out the door. I loaded the route into…

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  • Peterborough and the Kawarthas Cycling Odyssey – Day 2

    A few days ago, the forecast for Peterborough today, was for 10 to 15 mm of rain, but last night it only showed a millimetre of rain in the morning and a millimetre in the afternoon. So we agreed to get up at seven to potentially do a full day of riding. When we…

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  • Peterborough and the Kawarthas Cycling Odyssey -Day 1

    David, Dayle, Cindy, Wayne and I have set off on an adventure to Peterborough and the Kawarthas. We found a house on Vrbo, backing on the Otonobee River, to rent for six nights. We find it a low stress way to do a cycling trip and explore an area in detail without having to…

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  • Whitby Getaway – Day 2

    We got up and took the dog for a walk this morning at 7:30. It’s always funny walking someone else’s dog and encountering the other dog walkers who recognize the dog but not the people with her. We returned to the house for breakfast and checked the weather forecast to find that the day…

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  • Whitby Getaway- Day 4

    I awoke before my alarm this morning and the sun was shining in the window. Cindy already had the coffee ready and we enjoyed a cup before taking Oakley for a walk. Oakley seems to know all the dogs in the neighborhood, and there seem to be a lot. One particular dog visits and…

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  • Whitby Getaway – Day 3

    It rained heavily overnight, and was still raining quite a bit when we got up to walk the dog at 7:30, so we delayed over coffee, until the rain tapered off. We took our time getting ready and having breakfast, to give the roads time to mostly dry up before leaving. We dried our…

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  • Whitby Getaway – Day 1

    Cindy and I tried to put together a trip along the Waterfront Trail from Brampton to Cornwall that would have been a mix of staying with a friend of Cindy’s, a cousin of mine, and some hotels. But it was too long a return trip and we couldn’t find a reasonable way to transport…

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  • New York City – Day 9

    Park Avenue at 40th Street rises up to the second level of Grand Central Station. It then curves around to the east and then emerges at 46th Street, through the Helmsley building, coming down a ramp within the building. Southbound the road curves around the west side of the buildings. It’s a scene familiar…

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  • New York City – Day 8

    There is a constant cacophony of car horns around Grand Central Station and our hotel. However, this morning it had fallen silent. We opened the curtains to a bright sunny day and an empty 42nd St. We could see traffic cones and runners on the street. I wondered if it was an Open Streets…

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