Tag: wild camping

  • 20080726 On the rock

    The day started rather wet, so we opted for a short ride. We started out making our way to the ferry terminal from the beach where we camped with Thomas and Isabel. This was our first “free camping” on the trip, and it worked out well, despite the rain. Our arrival at the ferry was…

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  • 20080725 One last day in Quebec

    We made it to Sablon-Blanc and we are camping on the beach in the fog with Isabel, Thomas, and Sebastian. Thomas and Isabel met Sebastian on the ferry. He is visiting his mother in St. Pierre et Michelon, but rather than go there directly he came to Canada via Calgary and took the bus to…

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  • Short and easy

    We had a short ride day today – 51 km. We decided we would do two shorter days in lieu of the rest day we didn’t take at Niagara-on-the-Lake. Today we bounced between trails (some of which were single tracks behind posh houses backing onto the lake) and the North service road boarding the QEW…

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  • Accepting the kindness of strangers

    I woke up this morning and was trying to visualize how we would camp during our shakedown cruise around Lake Ontario in June, and I couldn’t quite see it. It will be difficult (not to mention expensive) to find campgrounds every time we want to stop, since we’re planning on riding about 80 km per…

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