2014: A VeloTramp Year in Review
I feel like I have been 47 years old for more than a year already but that number has been reached just today. It was at least October of 2013, since I first started referring to my upcoming January 2014… Read More
Travel
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At Trail’s End
Bittersweet was the day I rode out from Ingonish and it was both bitter and sweet for precisely the same reason. The journey was nearing an end. It would be great to complete it but at the same time there… Read More
North Mountain
The day after French Mountain was a pitiful day of weather. There was a stiff north westerly that brought a cold hard rain. A perfectly miserable day to get back on the bike. So I didn’t. On the advice of… Read More
French Mountain
I ate breakfast at Evangeline’s in Cheticamp. It was already beyond mid morning when I sat down in the popular, slow serving diner. I was slow getting ready in the morning. I was already sick of setting up and breaking… Read More
A Night in a Barn at the Auld Farm Inn
I once slept in a storage closet on a train in Vietnam. I once slept on a park bench in Mokpo, Korea. Now I have the pleasure of adding a barn to my list of unusual places I’ve sleep. The… Read More
Day 2: Iona to Baddeck
The 2nd day after the restart was another day of good riding. I started out along route 223 from just outside of Iona and then onto the Trans Canada Highway toward Baddeck. Despite the grey, featureless skies, the ride on… Read More
A Day On the Road
Yesterday the journey restarted from Sydney riding southwest on route 223 into a headwind with gusts that reached 50k per hour. Despite the wind, I was able to make good time ending the day just a little past Iona. The… Read More
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Introducing My New Camera: The Fuji X-E2
A little while ago I wrote about getting rid of my Nikon D-90. The Fuji X-E2 is what I have chosen to replace it with. The X-E2 is a Compact Systems Camera. In basic terms this means that it doesn’t use mirrors… Read More