On April 1, 2006, I set off across the Monashee Mountian in southern British Columbia on my bicycle. My destination was the Vancouver airport and Europe. The links on this page follow my ride from Canada to England, Holland, Germany, France and home again. I hope you enjoy the ride!
Snow
Shuffle
A snowy beginning
Monashee
Nakusp to Cherryville
When
One Door Closes
Cherryville to Vernon
Excerpts
From a Weird Interlude
Exploring the North Okanagan
In
The Air
Play by Play of the Flight Across the Globe
Like
a Hurricane
My first days in London and the south of England
My
London Derriere
London England, in all its lost glory
The
North Sea
On to Holland
Amsterdamalog
Adventures in a truly liberal society
Lost
in the Nederlands
Finally doing some serious cycling
Donkey's
Day Off
A solo ride across Holland
Dutch
Gestapo and German Angels
Maastricht Holland to Bonn Germany
Speyer
Germany
Rough weather and railroad redemption
Farm
to Castle
Refuge and a glimpse of German family life
On
to Lyon France
Train rides to the south of France, and an intro to
the rude French culture
Weighing
Down the Weighty Decision
The south of France and an unhappy decision
Reverse
Swirling
Training across France in the other direction
In
old Pairee
One crazy night in Paris
Trains
Banks and Beaches
My bank account gets frozen and I wind up under a
tree
From
the Jet to the Dog
Nine hours on a plane followed by nine hours on a
bus
Return
to Berts
Ending it all with a horde of mosquitoes