Peter & Annie's Bike Trip

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I am going to put some more pictures tomorrow. i am leaving you on that award-winning beard picture.

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The first picture is Peter telling a joke to his deer buddy.

The second one is Martin, another cyclist we met on the way to Quebec. he was also riding across Canada. And i would like to mention that one of his hobbies was reading the dictionnary.

We past there two or three weeks after a forest fire happened in northern ontario. The is really nothing left for kilometers and we could stil really smell the burning wood three weeks after that fire happened. Crazy!!

We left Winnipeg on a heavy rain and thunderstorm afternoon, it had been like that for the three days we have been there, but we decided to go anyway.... Two hours or so after we left, just enough time to be kind of in the middle of nowhere the sky was bright ahead of us but a crazy black clouds coming at us. There was no way we could go fast enough not to be caught by the storm. Every minute it was closer and at one point it was all silence, no wind at all just this really black sky now on top of our heads. We finally found a gas sation to shelter while the storm was there, but we ended up staying there all evening because it was a really nasty storm. We learned later it was a small tornado!

Welcome on Yellow brick road.

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The pictures are a bit mixed up. So this is in the prairies, the middle of Canada is in Manitoba. And the next picture is the clouds, these were so cool that day it seemed like there were some waves in the sky.

And that is Peter high on sugar

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That day was also an underwear biking day.

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Peter' s swimming suit...

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Hey everyone! I tought i would upload a couple of pictures, i know we haven't been really faithful writing this blog so at least here are some pictures.

So this is northern ontario and its million lakes. Just really perfect because we had really really hot weather there and this picture is black fox lake (in my opinion it should be called the black fly lake) and we stopped by and swam to that little island in the middle.

royalty

2010-07-24T12:22:00.000-07:00

hey everyone. i know i know, it's been over a month since our last communication. how are you all? i hope everyone is doing well. well as you might guess, a lot of stuff has happened since you last heard from us; we have met many interesting people and and animals and oh ya, WE ARE FINISHED THE TRIP! ANNIE AND PETER HAVE BIKE ACROSS THE COUNTRY!
with a late start of the day (12.30) and two flats on peters bike in a town with no air (making his grand total a whopping 17 flat tubes!) (annie is still on her first set which came with the bike) WE Made It! that's how it's made.
until we give you some pictures we won't get into too much detail of what happened in that last month but will definity fill you all in soon!
Thank you to all of you who supported us. and thank you spiderman

2010-06-17T20:09:00.000-07:00

Check it out!!!! I am soon going to put a whole bunch of fresh pictures in here!!! I am going to try tonight but i have absolutely no idea how this weird machine works.

Arnold

2010-06-17T19:44:00.000-07:00

Hello again yall
it has been 4 hours since our last blurg post and much CHANGE has happened. we met a very nice cyclist from wawa city at the local cafe who invited us into his home. his name is matt his wife is heidi and they have 2 kids who we have yet to meet. (they are asleep)
we have also decided to take the more southern route. we will now be travelling to sault saint marie way. this will mean more hills going up "yay! says peter and annie" and more hills going down "yay! says peter....."
when i asked matt how much speed one can get going down montreal river hill he put up his hand and said "over 90 kmph" WAHOOOOO!
i'm sure i can beat that. whether i'll be on my bike or in the ambulance, i'll beat that. hahaha thats a joke, see?
well it's my turn to shower, lets see if annie has somthing to say.........
Peter's jokes are always so funny...

Peter and his cotton tail and anne la banane

Hewlo i'm Barbwa Wawa

2010-06-17T16:33:00.000-07:00

hey guys, we hope every is well. annie and i are fine. we have just arrived in wawa and are taking a rest day after a very succesful couple of days. tomorow we are off again and heading towards timmins. we will be going through montreal and then head towards the maritimes.
take care, deter pewey

black flies and deer flies

2010-06-03T18:41:00.000-07:00

ONTARIO!!!!! Here we are in one of the most beautiful places we've seen yet. It's been a while since our last post, so we have a lot to share. Manitoba was great and we stayed with awesome people. The wind in Manitoba was really strong, it was really hard to bike in. For about a week, the south south- east wind was about 45km an hour, sometimes reaching 70-75 km. Although the weather was not on our side we kept our spirits up. We finally reached Winnipeg last Tuesday and stayed at Charlie and Ruth Levasseur the first night. After a trip to the worst bike shop in the world the next day, we stayed at Janie, Tim and Holly's. They were unbelievably generous, kind, letting us stay for three nights. Janie was nice enough to donate the food in her fridge into our bellies. But we think she soon regreted that decision when she realized she was hosting two gorillas... We were really excited to go but perhaps jumped the gun a little bit and ended up leaving in one of the worst thunderstorms of the year. By 7pm that night we were caught in the thunderstorm with no place to stay. Raindrops the size of a marble were falling on our heads. With a tornado warning and the roads closed ahead of us we were forced to stay in a motel, owned by a witch. She really took advantage of our situation. Things are better now. the weather is good, we are roasting again and we see some incredible wildlife. So far we've seen coyotes, fox, deer, bald eagles, a wolf, a painted turtle, a snake and I (Annie) got to see A BEAR!!!! Last night was spent under a bridge in Sioux Narrows, it was a really nice place, right by the Lake of the woods. It is amazingly beautiful. We met a local and she said they were drinking right from the lake. We kind of had company for a part of the night because across the chanel was a karaoke bar that went late into the night giving us all the godamn hits.. Today, we biked 45 km and are staying at a fishing and hunting lodge near Minnesota. All day, Peter was really anxious to jump from something really high into water, Annie deciding the bridge was too STUPID the water level being lower than usual. Annie forced Peter to keep biking. But then, some rocks caught his eye on a nearby lake. We skinny dipped across the lake and scoped out the possible jumping spots. Even though the water was less than 3 feet deep, Peter jumped head first from a 15 meters. Just kidding!!! He did however had a good and safe time. We are planing to take a break day tomorrow because of the risks of thunder showers.. That's it for now!!! Hope you are all doing well.

Annie and P e t e r

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Popcorn

2010-05-23T11:13:00.000-07:00

I woke up this morning and i was not alone in my sleeping bag. Laying on my belly was a tic feasting on my blood. I woke Peter up and asked him to take it off me because i had tried to pull it out but it really didn't want to go away. So we ended up doing a surgery with Peter's knife. We cut his head and threatened all its friends around to do the same with their head. We found after that episode a little army of them trying to get into our tent. I hope we are not taking any with us . I am a little bit paranoid now i must say... So now we are almost out of Saskatchewan, 2 or 3 km from Manitoba border and the wind is CRAZY. Somebody told us it is around 65km an hour. It's a little freaky beacause it is pushing us towards the highway. It is the second time this week that we have a wind like that and really there is nothing to stop that wind . No trees. No houses. Just flat land for miles around. It is so beautiful. We also had a light show last week, a thunder storm this south wind sent us. We had to stop biking, set up the tent as fast as we could and enjoy the show (for Peter only). After 2 or 3 hours in the tent waiting for the storm to pass, we got picked up by a really nice old man who brought us to Regina. There is so much that happened since we wrote last time, i have to talk about that guy we met, just on Alberta border. We stopped to rest and saw Dan coming on his bike. We talked and learned that he was doing the same thing as we are doing except his final destination was P.E.I, where he lives. We biked for two days with him and it was two awesome days. He thought us some drafting techniques and he was good company. He helped me a lot to find Peter, to make a long story short, we lost Peter in Swift Current for like 3 hours we tried to find him we finally found him after many adventures. We split with Dan in Swift Current because he had to catch up with his 3 friends in Regina who are also doing a trans-Canada ride. We are really happy that we met him. He is such a generous guy. I hope he's doing well. Someting incredible happened while we were with Dan. We stopped for lunch in a nowhere town with two houses and one cafe and it turned out that we met 2 other bikers, one corean biking from New York to Vancouver and the other one , we like to think he's Batman (his name is Wayne,a 50 years old guy with muscles everywhere) going across Canada too. So we were 5 of us in that little cafe, all doing the same thing! We really have to talk about the really nice people we've met along the way in Saskatchewan. People are really really amazing. A lot of people helped us and have been really generous. Some people shared their thoughts and talked to us about their life and this makes the trip so beautiful. I feelk like there is a lot more to say but we are running out of time and we have to get going. Manitoba, here we come!!!

Love, Annie and Peter

Johnny Rail Rider President and CEO of Unique Adventurers Inc.

2010-05-12T05:33:00.000-07:00

Hello Peoples!
Annie and Peter are doing great. We just had a Great 120Km ride into Lethbridge! We met a some amazing people here. Passing people are so great to just talk to us and ask about what we are doing. One special person we talked to was named Allen who had a very bright outlook on life. Yesterday we had breakfast with a really cool guy named John. He treated us to "Fredom Toast" and an endless supply of adventure stories. John invited us to stay at his house, so here we are in at 6 in the morning just after another great breakfast writing to you. We will head off pretty soon and head toward Medicine Hat (probably reach in two days from now).
Well, better get moving! We hope everyone is well. Love Peter and Annie, (new members of Unique Adventurers Inc.)
Ride On Johnny, see you on the tracks!

April 30 summary of phone call

2010-04-30T11:05:00.000-07:00

Cold, snowy weather - makes it hard to sleep at night. Seeing amazing wildlife (mule deer). A deer galloped along the road beside Peter when he descended a mountain. Stayed overnight in Creston. Today (Apr 30th) staying in Yahk BC. Weather - driving rain. Set up tent in someone's garage to keep warm and dry.

THE ROCKIES!!!!!!!

2010-04-26T15:52:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone! (Happy Birthday Brother John) I hope you all are well. Annie and I are super! We just had a couple of great days of biking to and through the Rockies. We are now in Fernie. We have had really cold weather lately. ("You have Two Pairs of gloves? uhh ya, we're in the rockies") we woke up to snow one of the days! Two days ago we were stuck in a snow storm and were out of food so we hitched to the next town which brought us to Creston. We gave our legs a nice break and are ready to start again. Our next stop is Alberta!

We are now staying at gary and leannes house and they are super nice. tomorow we will be into alberta (weather permitting)
yesterday we got a foot of snow so we took it easy.
To cope with the cold nights. annie and i have "second-handedly" bought one peice snowsuits to sleep in. Ahhh finally a solid nights sleep.
well until next time, take care,
(Pictures are on their way) so keep looking.

2010-04-21T10:49:00.000-07:00

Hey Everyone!

Sorry about the long time no contact. We have arrived in Osoyoos after a 76km of biking yesterday. The valley is very hot and we both have nice sunburns. Climbing the summits have been challenging but VERY rewarding. Many people have been encouraging us when they drive by, by honking and yelling "COME ON!" "GOOOOOO".
The wildlife viewing has been great. We have seen loads of mule deer, a few groundhogs, a mountain beaver and loads of birds. Two nights ago we went to bed with the noises of a pack of coyotes yipping.
Well we should get on our bikes again and keep going. Thanks for all those who are supporting us and cheering us on.
deter and gannie

About to begin

2010-04-11T20:51:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, our trip is about to begin! We are leaving on the 8 o'clock Fulford ferry tomorrow so we will try to have a good night sleep. Our nerves might keep us awake though. We'll start biking at the Tsawassen ferry terminal and follow highway 99 south until we reach highway 10 east which will take us to highway 3. So everyone who is reading this, please, pray for our legs! Thanks to all of you who supported us in the preliminary stages of this trip. We won't let you down.

Love
Annie and Peter