On Two Wheels, For Better, For Worse
Two old fools, one bicycle, one motorcycle, and a marriage tested by every continent in between.
our story starts in Canada 2014
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Sunset Boulevard
A cheeky refund-guarantee question at a campsite called ‘Sunset View’ backfires spectacularly — the sunset delivers, and Clif’s Scottish thriftiness kicks in the next morning, refusing to hang around for…
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Tour Du Canada
Three days of repeat encounters with a fully-supported charter tour group crossing Canada — luggage carried, food bought, route sorted for a few thousand dollars. Now why didn’t they think…
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Toronto to Kingston
Back on the road after Florida, Susan’s shin splints finally healed — a chance reunion with Paul, who took their very first photo at the Mile 0 marker back in…
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Ganin Yem
Cycling east from Toronto, familiar-sounding place names prompt Susan’s Geordie remark from the back of the bike — ‘haddaway man, this is just like ganin yem’ — and Clif’s reply…
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Back To Work
A theme-park break in Florida with family ends with US Airways cancelling their connection and rebooking them from an airport 200 miles away — a persuasive plea and an Air…
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Toronto
Three months of eat-sleep-cycle metronomic routine catches up with them in Toronto — a bio-hazard-labelled storage locker for their cycling shoes, an Indian restaurant mysteriously out of chapatis, and roughly…
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Chen Guan Ming
A Chinese farmer named Chen Guan Ming, pedalling a rickshaw against a headwind toward Manitoulin Island, is on his own multi-Olympics goodwill journey — having already cycled through 18 countries…
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