Musings on horticultural therapy and the soothing effects of plants and nature
The sun is playing with the clouds as we head south on Le P’tit Train du Nord. It’s an easy pedaling day as the trail will tend to be downhill (mostly) and unless we take detours, our mileage should be around 35. We push hard though a forested grotto, which is cool and damp. A […]
It’s a clear sunny morning, not a cloud in the sky. We have nearly 50 miles to ride today. There are no other cyclists on Le P’tit du Train Nord this morning. Within 15 minutes of starting we strip layers next to a beaver den. By the time we get to Rivière-Rouge, we have both […]
A short ride takes us to the end of the trail at 200 km. Another 1 km takes us to an abandoned and boarded up station house where the trail actually ends. Now we retrace yesterday’s pedaling on yet another cloudy, coolish day. Leaving Mont-Laurier, we come across a cattle field filled with daisies, red […]
. . .grandpa wants a dry bike [ride] It was supposed to stop raining around noon but that never happened. So with 36 miles to finish the complete leg of Le P’tit du Train Nord, we don our rain gear and head off. We are fortunate that the base for the rest of the trail […]
Another cool and cloudy day greets us as we start our ride toward Nominingue forcing us to layer up with windbreakers to thwart the chill. It’s an easy coast downhill toward Mont-Tremblant. Few other cyclists are on the trail and we appear to be passing through an alpine-like forest populated mostly with conifers separated by […]
It’s a cool, cloudy day for Ted and me as we start our 8-day ride in the Laurentians. The trail officially starts in St. Jerome and we will bike to a B&B in Mont Blanc, nearly 50 miles away, today. A giant arch signifies the start and we stretch our bicycle legs as we make […]
Ted and I have hit the road again with our bikes for our annual Le Tour de Geezers. It is hard to believe but this will be our seventh bike adventure together in eight years. We return to Canada where we road and ate our weights in seafood through Prince Edward Island. But this is […]
It’s a bright chilly morning in Augusta. A perfect day to finish our trip to St. Charles. After an excellent breakfast at our B&B and with a couple of trail pastries in my saddlebag, we are ready for our short 27-mile ride to St. Charles. The sun is beaming down warming us as we make […]
Crossing Big Muddy on our bikes for the last time, it is a bright, hazy, temperate morning: perfect weather for the 37-mile ride into Augusta. After an uneventful pedal along the highway, we are back on the trail shaded by a tunnel of trees. A cool, stiff breeze is attempting to thwart our forward progress, […]
It’s cloudy and drizzly. We are not complaining. After three days on the road, our bikes have a fine patina of dust covering nearly every surface and they could use a good washing. We have 48 miles to ride to Hermann, a town founded in the mid 1800s by German immigrants looking to create a […]