Author: Rebecca J Hogue

  • Tailwinds

    88 km, 5 hours It is a beautiful day. Our ride today takes us along the St. Laurence river coastline. It seem to take forever to get out of Trois-Rivieres / Cap-de-la-Madeleine this morning. The campsite wasn’t that close to the Route Verte and the Route Verte takes you through many twists and turns as…

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  • Rain rain go away

    With rain and a forecast that calls for 20-30 mm over the next few hours, we decided that we would stay here for one more night. It would be nice to be on the road again; however, our plan for the next night is to camp, and camping in a downpour is really no fun.…

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  • Route Verte 5: Montreal to Repentigny

    55 km 3 hours, 45 minutes.Again, we departed late, shortly after noon. We had a nice breakfast at a local $2 special greasy spoon. It provided a nice opportunity to visit with Kirstin prior to leaving. We made our way to the bike path and followed it into downtown Montreal. Again, the drivers were very…

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  • Route Verte 1: Oka to Montreal

    66 km 5 hrs It rained last night, sometimes heavily. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a steady rain, rather it rained in bouts on and off. Every time the rain picked up, it woke me up. Adding to the rain, Scott seemed to be paranoid about animals getting into our gear. He kept hearing them and shouting…

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  • Camping in the rain … again!

    87 km, 5 hrs, 30 min. Today didn’t start out as hot today as yesterday, but it was still pretty muggy. It threatened to rain a few times – a few drops trying to cool us down without much success. We started off by riding along the Prescott-Russell rail trail. At first the bugs were…

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  • A quick update

    I’m writing this from the library in Vankleek Hill as Scott waits patiently outside. We are off to Oka Provincial park tonight (hopefully before the thunder storms). Tomorrow we are hoping to make it to Montreal.

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  • A long short day

    54 km, 4 hours ride time. It was hot and humid day. We had a late start which is not too surprising given how late we got in last night. It was nice to have a brief visit with Ron and Wendy at breakfast. Throughout our ride today we were both tired. I think it…

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  • We left home … finally …

    We departed the house at 8:00 pm. Yes, that is not a mistake, pm, not am. It took us much longer than anticipated to get the house in order. Once everything was done, we wanted to be on our way. Waiting until the morning to leave would have meant more delays and we were both…

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