January 13, 2026 - Hoshizuna Beach - 33 km day ride - Terrace Iriomotejima January 14, 2026 - Hoshizuna Beach, Iriomote to Ishigaki, Ishigaki - 43 kms - Hotel Patina January 15, 2026 - Ishigaki - no cycling - Hotel Patina - island count: 16, with the addition of Taketomi January 16, 2026 - Ishigaki - 46 km day cycle - Hotel Patina - total ...
January 27, 2025 - Non Din Daeng to Tot Wong Som Boon - 58 kms - January 28, 2025 - Tot Wong Som Boon to Wattana Nakhon - 68 kms - Areeya Resort January 29, 2025 - day ride into Pang Sida National Park - 68 kms - Areeya Resort January 30, 2025 - Wattana Nakhon to near Na Di - 57 kms - Canachari ...
December 30, 2024 - Champasak day ride - 30 kms day ride - Anouxa Riverview Guesthouse December 31, 2024 Champasak day ride - 32 kms day ride - Anouxa Riverview Guesthouse January 1, 2025 - Champasak to Km 32 on Paksong road - 64 kms - Sabaidee Valley Resort January 2, 2025 - Km 32 to Tatlo - 85 kms - Palamei Guesthouse January 3, ...
On Saturday, three days before our flight to Bangkok, I made a last trip to the Public Works yard to dispose of a utility trailer load of fruit tree prunings and other yard waste. As I was pulling the loaded trailer up our moss covered driveway I slipped, fell, and dropped the heavy steel trailer tongue on my knee, pushing it in a direction it ...
December 5, 2023 - Taipei to Shimen Reservoir - 50kms - One Plus One Motel As we pulled up to the motel they were proudly advertising their three hour rate . Hummm, could this be a love hotel? This is a luxurious version by contrast to the ones we have seen in Thailand. Unlike the shower curtains to hide your car in Thailand, we ...
Twenty years ago our friend Mel connected us with one of her former Taiwanese students who needed a place to stay in Victoria. Bruce stayed with us for a month, and during that time he was game to join in on whatever we were doing. He even joined us at a protest where we all dressed up in costumes. We parted with the promise that ...
Two days ago we arrived at Piacenza, and a crossroads in our pilgrimage. We have made the decision to say goodbye to the Via Postumia, which goes south to the coast at Genoa, and instead cover a bit of the Via Francigena in reverse. We walked and cycled the Via Francigena from Canterbury to Rome (and beyond, on the the Via Francigena Sud) in 2012 ...
[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text] This morning I spotted a toasted sesame seed on my ankle that revealed itself to be a tick. Further examination disclosed three more, and yet another this afternoon. Ruth bravely removed all of them with tweezers. The Internet tells us that ticks in Hungary can carry Lyme disease and encephalitis, so I am under observation for a bulls eye rash pattern and signs ...
Our first days on the Via Pannonia have been wonderful. Denys, Gord and I were joined on our second day by Ewa, a Polish friend we met years ago on the Via Francigena. Our tribe of four has spent the last three days climbing up and down through beautiful spring green forests, and the evenings laughing and sharing stories over goulash and Hungarian beer. We ...
Detail of Pilgrims in Canterbury CathedralThe Via Francigena is already feeling like a small family affair in comparison to the extended family clan reunion of the Camino de Santiago. I have been in contact by email with Alison Raju and Paul Chinn, both of whom have written guides for the VF. Gord and I met Alison on the Le Puy route in France the first ...