July 18 (Saturday) Start Time: 5:00 am Stop Time: 2:00 pm KM Travelled: 117.4 km Elevation: +625/ - 585 m Special Stuff: Soft Serve Ice Cream, Chickens, Quebec (city) I leave my hotel in Trois Rivières at 5:00 am. The woman hotel clerk is surprised to see me with my bike fully loaded and ready to go - no one else is around. I ask here if the downtown area is safe - she confirms that it is. Outside the hotel, I pause and consider if I've made the right choice to start off this

July 17 (Friday) Start Time: 6:00 am Stop Time: 4:00 pm KM Travelled: 130 km Elevation: +522/ - 521 m Special Stuff: Trois Rivières I start today’s ride by going the wrong direction. Thankfully I stop shortly after I set out and I course correct quickly. Unfortunately 'course correction' is the theme of the day. My Ride with GPS route has me going all over the place - very inefficient travel. I start to doubt my competency with reading maps. My route takes me through and bes

July 16 (Thursday) Start Time: 5:45 am Stop Time: 2:00 pm KM Travelled: 115 km Elevation: +563/ - 616 m Special Stuff: Goodbye Ontario, Rainbows, Quebec countryside The Walmart parking lot campground is surprisingly restful! I thought we might have an incident with other vagrants (like us), but, nothing...just a great sleep. At 5:30 am, I am all prepped for the day - and have done my checks on the weather and my route. There's a good chance of rain - which I don't mind. Brian

July 15, 2026 (Wednesday) Start time: 5:30 am Stop time: 2:00 pm KM Travelled: 136.1 km Elevation: +818/ - 867 m Special Stuff: Cooler weather, Biking = Wellness, French language Around 10:00 pm last night, I woke up to a thunderstorm that poured down rain and seemed to cool everything off to a tolerable level again. I’m able to pack my bike up comfortably. I don’t know how I would have coped with the temperature staying as high as it was along with this added humidity.

July 14, 2026 (Tuesday) Start Time: N/A Stop Time: N/A KM Travelled: 0 on the Bike Elevation: 0 on the Bike Special Stuff: Ready for the next stretch, Air conditioning Today the temperatures are forecasted to go up to 35 degrees - which is not a favourable for bike riding. Brian is busy with work stuff all day, and I have some work to do getting ready for the next 4 days (creating my routes on RidewithGPS, booking accommodation and a bike repair appointment) as there will be

July 13, 2026 (Monday) Start Time: N/A Stop Time: N/A KM Travelled: 0 on the Bike Elevation: 0 on the Bike Special Stuff: Time with my husband Today is a rest day. Brian takes a day off and we go into Ottawa to look around a bit. We check out the parliment buildings, which are unfortunately (or fortunately) being renovated, and take some time to observe the lock system in action. The capital city of Canada is not as busy with tourists as I expected it would be in July. For m

July 12, 2026 (Sunday) Start Time: 6:00 am Stop Time: 11:10 am KM Travelled: 85 km Elevation: +545/ - 596 m Special Stuff: First glimpse of Ottawa I forget to set my alarm but my circadian rhythm is working like ‘clockwork’ and I wake up 3 minutes past 4:00 am. I slept like a log after yesterday's long ride – waking for only brief moments to notice that my legs feel like they’ve had a workout. It's so interesting to still have this 'post workout' feeling after having don

July 11, 2026 (Saturday) Start Time: 5:20 am Stop Time: 1:30 pm KM Travelled: 140.1 km Elevation: +754/ -762 m Special Stuff: Morning rides, Discernment, Good-bye Highway 17! I’m on the road biking before my intended departure time. This is a really special day because it is the last stretch that I need to travel Highway 17 in Ontario. I’m excited to get it over and done with. I’ve said this before, and I will keep saying it, morning bike rides are glorious! It is quiet

July 9, 2026 (Thursday) Start Time: 5:30 am Stop Time: 10:30 am KM Travelled: 77.8 km Elevation: +862/ -848 m Special Stuff: The fog, Creating good childhood memories, Campfires I get off to an early start with my ride and along with it comes a fog that persists for most of several hours. Visibility is pretty good, so I feel okay riding in it. I like the fog this morning because it heightens my sense of hearing. I am very attuned to the sound of vehicles coming from both

July 9th, 2026 (Thursday) Start Time: N/A Stop Time: N/A KM Travelled: 0 on the Bike Elevation: 0 on the Bike Special Stuff: Catching Up I couldn't figure out how to turn off my alarm, so I'm up at my usual time sifting through my email inbox. I come across a post from my fitness coach, Alex - he sends out blog posts on a regular basis. I see he's written something about crossing Canada, which piques my interest. I get into reading the post and see the name "Corinne", a

July 8, 2026 (Wednesday) Start Time: 6:00 am Stop Time: 2:45 pm KM Travelled: 119.2 km Elevation: +1,101/ - 1,157 m Special Stuff: Communities with trails, Endurance As much as I think I ‘should’ start at 5:00 am or 5:30 am this morning, I decide not to ‘should’ on myself and do what a typical person might do...I start at 6:00 am. The campsite is way off course, so Brian gives me a ride back to the Tim Hortons across from the place I had breakfast yesterday. I’m feelin

July 7, 2026 Start Time: 5:00 am Stop Time: 10:30 am KM Travelled: 89.8 km Elevation: +427/ -501 m Special Stuff: Early starts, Country sides, Cute country farms, People who 'join me' along the way Last night I went to bed at 7:00 pm, so when I wake up before my alarm at 3:00 am I am well rested. This morning I am departing at 5:00 am because the temperatures will be reaching 30 degrees Celsius by noon and I expect to be travelling a lot on Highway 17 – which continues t

July 6, 2026 (Monday) Start Time: 6:00 am Stop Time: 1:00 pm KM Travelled: 87.2 km Elevation: +566/ -497 m Special Stuff: Neat ideas along the way, Little brick houses I continue to be surprised by what a rest day does to charge up my courage bank. I woke up yesterday thinking I maybe should have just pressed on, but I felt uncertain and I did not have a crystal clear picture of what the route was going to look like for today. Throughout my rest day, I did some research

July 5, 2026 (Sunday) Start Time: N/A Stop Time: N/A KM Travelled: 0 on the Bike Elevation: 0 on the Bike Special Stuff: Rest days I wake up today thinking that maybe I should have pressed on. Sitting with my computer this morning having my coffee, it feels really cold. It would have been a good day for riding, but I remind myself, rest days are important to prevent burnout. Getting up every biking day and doing the ride requires desire and drive (gumption)...it is the fuel t

July 4, 2026 (Saturday) Start Time: 6:10 am Stop Time: 3:15 pm KM Travelled: 111.9 km Elevation: +721. -698 m Special Stuff: Sunrises, Keeping fit as we get older We have discovered a great campsite here at the Blind River Marina. Marinas are designed for boaters who travel in a similar way to us and have similar needs (like showers, shopping, etc.). There are a few other travellers (boaters and drivers) that have stopped for the night, but they are a ways off from us.

July 3, 2026 (Friday) Start Time: 5:45 am Stop Time: 12:00 pm KM Travelled: 86.9 km Elevation? +396/ - 391 m Special Stuff: Ontario farmlands, Amish people, Marinas Packing up for my ride today, I take extra care to secure my luggage as I will be mostly riding on gravel roads. As I leave the municipal campground, I feel my chain slipping and skipping gears. DRAT, I think to myself. I don’t know how to fix something like this! I consider waking Brian up to ask him for

Start Time: 5:45 am Stop Time: 9:30 am KM Travelled: 61.3 km Elevation: +414/ -411 m Special Stuff: Countryside riding, Amish I wake up in the motel room feeling well prepared (theoretically) for the ride ahead, but I also feel anxious about what the ACTUAL ride will involve. Am I going to end up on some forest, swamp or muddy road. Is the ride more suited for mountain bike tires? Do I have enough time to get to Bruce Mines before the heat hits? (The high temperatures al

July 1st, 2026 (Wednesday) Start time: 6:45 am Stop time: 7:50 am KM Travelled: 14.8 km Elevation: +68/ -158 m Special Stuff: Extra Rest Day due to high temperatures - Weather Alerts - Severe Thunderstorm (Yellow Watch) and Heat (Yellow Watch) Due to the Heat Warning I take an extra day to consider how to proceed on towards Sudbury. I take advantage of the cool morning and bike from one part of Sault Ste. Marie to the other side of the city. The idea is to shave off the 14.8

June 30th, 2026 (Tuesday) Start time: N/A Stop time: N/A KM Travelled: 0 on the Bike Elevation: 0 on the Bike Special Stuff: Great bike service This is our first time staying at a KOA campground - it is so fancy for a campground. We feel a little out of place amongst the big rigs with outdoor televisions and stationary bikes hauled out for exercise. It is an interesting experience. The landscaping is nice...makes me think of a few things we could do to spruce up our yard

June 29, 2026 Start Time: 6:20 am Stop Time: 1:30 pm KM Travelled: 112.8 km Elevation: +993/ - 912 m Special Stuff: That the ride for today is done I was up through the night listening to the wind and looking at the weather reports about the wind and weather conditions. Today the wind will be a strong headwind with gusts up to 40-50 km/ hour. The highway will likely have a narrow shoulder, leaving a small margin for error. At 2:30 am, Brian gets up and goes outside to t