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Montreal with Owen – Day 1

There are three trips about which I blogged that I never wrote the final day(s)’ blog posts. There are also a few trips that I didn’t blog about, at all. I’ve decided to cast my mind back, and to write these missing blog posts, inspired by the pictures I took, and my memories of theContinue reading “Montreal with Owen – Day 1”

Ride to Toronto – Biidaasige Park, Bike Rally, and Public Art

This is quite a long post, and I was thinking about whether I should break it into multiple posts, but I decided to add a table of contents, instead, to make it easy to jump to a specific section.  The Ride Cindy, Barry and I decided to ride to Biidaasige Park, a new parkContinue reading “Ride to Toronto – Biidaasige Park, Bike Rally, and Public Art”

Hamilton 2025 – Day 6

A big storm did arrive last night, and lowered the temperature a bit, but did not clear out the humidity. We left a little later this morning, and kept it local. On our way to visit New Hope Community Bikes, we passed by Hamilton’s Children’s Museum located in Gage Park. It is undergoing an extensiveContinue reading “Hamilton 2025 – Day 6”

Hamilton 2025 – Day 5

Last night, Cindy asked me if I had ever been to Ancaster. I had, on a Greg‘s ride, riding from Dundas up Wilson Street into Ancaster. I remembered it being very challenging, and it was a much cooler day that day, than it was forecast to be, today. I used Google maps to determine itContinue reading “Hamilton 2025 – Day 5”

Hamilton 2025 – Day 4

Alina got up at the crack of dawn to ride to Bramalea GO to catch the bus that arrived at Hamilton Centre GO Station at 8:55. She then rode the short distance over to where we are staying. After a bathroom and snack break we left about 9:30. We are riding a loop that IContinue reading “Hamilton 2025 – Day 4”

Hamilton 2025 – Day 3

We decided to do a short ride on the Hamilton Brantford Rail Trail, leaving it to ride through a neighbourhood to pick up some level 17 tiles, or Squadrathinos as they are called on Squadrats.com, before descending into Dundas, for lunch, then returning through McMaster. We stopped early in the ride at the John RebeccaContinue reading “Hamilton 2025 – Day 3”

Hamilton 2025 – Day 2

I woke with a headache and backache this morning, so we changed our plans from, biking to Brantford, to a lazy morning, and a ride to Hamilton Beach in the afternoon. I’ve written about Statshunters.com before, which I use to create a personal heat map of all the places I have ridden my bike since 2013,Continue reading “Hamilton 2025 – Day 2”

Hamilton 2025 – Day 1

Cindy, and her husband, Mark, and I have come to Mark’s daughter’s house to look after her cat, Joanie, in Hamilton for the week.  Michael, and my oldest son, drove me my bike, and my stuff to Hamilton. My daughter Megan, and her fiancé John, walked over from their place in Hamilton, to join usContinue reading “Hamilton 2025 – Day 1”