Mum & Dad visit Canada
The weather has been utterly glorious for about two months now! so guess what I did… ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Ok, not completely true, but I have left my bicycle in Prince Rupert to have a vacation […]
the Weird and the Wonderful
Not all too surprisingly Canada is lovely in summer too. Although the extremely brief transition period between winter and summer seems to confuse nature too. It’s a strange feeling to be sweating and hot and […]
Downhill to Alaska! (and uphill out)
It is all downhill into Alaska. Just before crossing the border I had met the fox. And even luckier, I met Mason. Who just happened to be up there taking photo’s, not necessarily of me […]
The Spell of the Yukon
That’s how this famous poem from Robert Service, an Englishman who moved out to the Klondike after the gold rush years, starts. Now I wanted gold too, but of a different kind. And far more easy […]
The Dempster Delights
The Dempster Highway, Canada’s only all-weather road to cross the Arctic circle, was officially opened in 1979. That same year, in the Netherlands, a girl was born and decided to go cycle that road in winter one […]
Here we go
Do you recognise this thing? You see or hear something and it won’t leave you alone? It’s been month’s since I saw this youtube video and though: Far out! That’s ridiculous! Who would do such a […]
Winter is coming
I was thinking how funny it is I went to Iceland to ride the ring road in winter and allowed myself 3 months. Where in Canada I’ve given myself a month to ride a distance that’s […]
