Doug Walsh's Blog, page 20
June 8, 2014
Bienvenue Cyclistes!
Perdon. Nous bicyclette de Seattle, los Etats Unis. Je ne parle pas Francais. Parlez-vous anglais? Oui? Tres bon! Merci beaucoup! The change came at once upon crossing the Ottawa River. Or, as the map upon my handlebar said, the Riviere de Outaouais. The first of a week’s worth of La Route Verte signs lay just a kilometer beyond the […]
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May 27, 2014
Great Lakes, but Not-So-Great Roads
For the past two weeks, we have been cycling the shores of Lake Superior and Lake Huron on a portion of the Trans-Canada Highway from Thunder Bay to Sudbury, Ontario. We have been surrounded by beautiful scenery, even if the weather and road surface have been much less than perfect. While the population along the […]
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May 12, 2014
Transitioning Seasons and Attitudes
I’ve watched enough Weather Channel over the years to know that Minnesota is notorious for its lengthy, frigid winters. I did not, however, expect to see icebergs on Lake Superior. Nor did I expect to push through the occasional snowdrift alongside Lake Bemidji, or be told we might not get to go canoeing at the […]
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April 29, 2014
Hills, Headwinds, and a How-d’ye-do
Hills, headwinds, and hearing “Howdy” everywhere you go aren’t the first things that come to mind when thinking about North Dakota. As part of the Great Plains, we expected pancake flat roads, mostly tailwinds — we were headed East — and lots of not-so-friendly truckers in town for the recent oil boom. Boy were we (and […]
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April 16, 2014
Montana’s Cold Shoulder (Season)
The blue skies and unseasonably warm weather that greeted us in East Glacier when we rolled onto the Great Plains didn’t last. Not even twelve hours. We awoke the next morning to a driving snowstorm that only intensified as we headed north towards Browning, capital of the Blackfeet Nation. The snow plastered our clothes, panniers, […]
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April 8, 2014
Conquering Sherman Pass and a Goat Udder
We have officially been out longer than ever before and are safe and sound in Eureka, MT. Over the past week, we have ridden in three states (WA, ID, and MT), cycled over our tallest mountain pass yet, and experienced 18 hours on a farm, helping out with both evening and early morning chores. On […]
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April 5, 2014
A Shot in the Arm and Pain in the Wallet
Back in April of last year, after spending hours researching and creating what I thought was a reasonable vaccine plan (see details here), the time had come to see if I was close. I called Bartell Drugs Travel Clinic (friends in Western WA can email us for contact information) and was lucky enough to begin […]
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March 29, 2014
Serendipity in Orbit
The good fortune that enabled us to make the smoothest of transitions from suburban professionals to unemployed vagabonds has miraculously continued to follow us on the road. Despite Seattle having just broken a long-standing record for rainiest March in recorded history (8.4 inches and counting), we rolled out of the city last Sunday under bright […]
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March 13, 2014
Ready for Liftoff
Travel writer and Seattle-area bicycle advocate Willie Weir once likened the act of embarking on an extended trip to a space shuttle lunch: So much energy must be consumed right there on the launchpad before any movement can be detected. Everything we know and love conspires to keep us in place, to form that gravitational […]
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February 24, 2014
Life in Two Piles
We have been quite busy since our last post. This past weekend, we started seriously sorting, packing, and stacking everything that we will not be selling at our estate sale. We moved the furniture out of the guest room and converted it into a temporary storage area with two piles; one for everything we will […]
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