Scott and Becky go East

Scott and Becky’s grand adventure – around the world without airplanes.

Tag: planning

  • Stage 1 – Canada East of Ottawa

    After receiving some advice from Gary at Atlantic Cycling, we’ve modified our planned route across Newfoundland and added some more riding in Labrador. For the first part of our trip we will be riding east from Ottawa (our home). The route will be: Ottawa – Natashquan, QC (1500 km) Ferry to Blanc-Sablon, QC This ferry…

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  • Bikes and Crossing the Atlantic

    This is a really quick update, as we are participating in the Canadian Unitarian Council’s Annual Conference and Meeting this weekend. I’ll try and update with more details and pictures pictures sometime this weekend. We successfully picked up our bikes this week. We made a quick trip down to Afred Station NY to get the…

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  • A quick update

    We are slowly but surely getting ready for this trip. The reality of it all is setting in. We have: Completed our immunizations (all that needed to be done before we leave North America. We still need to take the Cholera vaccine just before we leave North America). Completed our Servas interviews. We have our…

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  • Countdown schedule

    Sun Jun 22 Arrive home from shakedown cruiseWed Jun 25 Scott First-aidThu Jun 26 Scott First-aid Becky PhysicalFri Jun 27 Tentative – Visit Grandma Mount? Sat Jun 28 Open HouseSun Jun 29 Open House Tue Jul 1 Open HouseThu Jul 3 <Ideal move date> Thu Jul 24 – 22485 Natasquan to Blanc Sablon $243.54 deposit…

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  • Shakedown Cruise around Lake Ontario

    From wikipedia: Shakedown cruise is a nautical term in which the performance of a ship is tested. Shakedown cruises are also used to familiarize the ship’s crew with operation of the craft. In our case, our shakedown cruise is an opportunity to test out all our gear and processes to ensure that it all works…

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  • Freighter Update

    This update is coming a little late. We have successfully reserved a spot on a freighter from Naples Italy to Port Kelang (Kuala Lumpur), Malaysia on or about February 1st, 2009. The itinerary currently takes us through La Spezia Italy and Barcelona Spain. We are hoping that we end up in Barcelona at a time…

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  • Learning the Language

    For me, one of the big challenges about this trip is the different languages in all the places we’re planning to go. Neither Becky nor I have great had much success learning foreign languages, so I suspect we’ll be getting by in English. I do want to learn at least a few words in the…

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  • Freighter frustration

    I have been trying for over a month now, rather unsuccessfully thus far, to book a freighter. We want to take a freighter from somewhere on the north east coast of North America (Montreal, New York, Newark, or Philadelphia) to somewhere in Europe (ideally Italy, but we would settle for pretty much anywhere on the…

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