Posts in Category: Canada
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Lake Huron – Cycling to Goderich and Bayfield and a Sunset Cruise
This is the sixth post from a 2014 RV trip I took with my son Dale to the Kitchener/Waterloo region of southern Ontario. Yesterday we enjoyed some great cycling through Mennonite country and then switched gears as we drove to the outskirts of the town of Goderich on Lake Huron. Today we’ll do more cycling, […]
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Cycling Mennonite Country on the Kissing Bridge Trailway
This is my fifth post from a 2014 RV trip that I took with my son Dale through the Kitchener/Waterloo area of southern Ontario. So far we explored the famed markets of St. Jacob’s, canoed on and fished for bass on the Grand River, hiked the Elora Gorge and much more. Today we’ll add cycling […]
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Grand River Fly Fishing – Bass Masters We are Not
This is day four of the 2014 RV trip that my son Dale and I took to the Kitchener/Waterloo area of southern Ontario. So far we have canoed the Grand River, shopped at the famed St. Jacob’s market, explored Elora Gorge and much more. Today we are scheduled to return to the Grand River with […]
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Elora Gorge, Mennonite Country and Fording the Conestogo River
This is the third post from the 2014 RV trip that my son Dale and I took to the Kitchener/Waterloo region of southern Ontario. So far we have canoed the Grand River, explored downtown Kitchener and visited the pretty little town of St. Jacob’s. Today we are scheduled travel through Mennonite country to Elora Gorge […]
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Kitchener – Canoeing the Grand River and Seeing the City
My son Dale and I are on our annual RV trip and this year we have chosen the Waterloo region of southern Ontario as our destination. The trip got off to a great start yesterday with a visit to the interesting town of St. Jacob’s followed by a tour of Mount Hope Cemetery in Waterloo. […]
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Waterloo Ontario – Highlights of RVing in the St. Jacob’s Area
For the past three years I have going on an annual RV trip and writing about it for RV Gazette, a publication that unfortunately no longer exists. The first year was totally insane as my son Dale Jr. and I drove 4000 kms. in a week over ridiculously bad roads in a crossing of the […]
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Toronto Blue Jays vs. New York Yankees Hall of Famers
This is a pre-trip post on the 2014 RV trip that my son Dale and I are planning in the Waterloo region of southern Ontario which we will start tomorrow. Our plan was to meet my daughter Lenore who lives in Toronto and then go out to dinner, but on checking the Toronto Blue Jays […]
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Oak Island with the Masons and the Lagina Brothers
Ever since I was a young boy I have been fascinated with pirates and in particular Captain Kidd and his connection to Nova Scotia’s Oak Island. I can date this fascination exactly, as it started with a box of cereal. In the late 1950’s or early 1960’s Shreddies, (my favourite cereal after Sugar Pops which […]
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The Bike and Bean – Cycling from Halifax to Tantallon
After our trip to Holland in the spring I became re-energized about cycling and decided to get serious about it. The first step was to buy a new bike, but after a visit to Cyclesmith, Halifax’s best known bike shop, I was a bit dismayed at the cost – $1700 plus tax for a good […]