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• Day 8: Salmon Arm – Revelstoke

  By Deanna on June 13, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  To Day: 107km 1,026m of climbing To Date: 625.5km, 6,904m To Go: 7,175km Today an odd thing happened.  I kept waiting for the hill to come, and it never came.  I had looked at the elevation map last night and… Read More ›

• Day 7: Kamloops – Salmon Arm

  By Deanna on June 11, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  Today: 111.5km, 722m of climbing To date: 519km,  5878m To go: 7,281km I am sitting in the campground laundry mat – not doing laundry, that would be silly, but relaxing in an easychair, plugged into the wall, using the wifi… Read More ›

• Day 6: Steelhead PP – Kamloops

  By Deanna on June 10, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Today: 54km, 567m elevation gain To Date: 409 km, 5156m elevation To Go: 7,591km!! I decided to alter my normal routine of coffee and oatmeal in camp and splurge for bacon & eggs 2km down the road at the Savona… Read More ›

• Day 5: Marble Canyon – Steelhead Provincial Park

  By Deanna on June 9, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  Today: 75.5 km, 373m elevation gain To Date: 358km, 4491m elevation gain To Go: Oh I don’t know…. 7,650km? Everything yesterday was, today wasn’t.  Yesterday was crazy hot with long exhausting climbs – today was light rain and glorious, glorious… Read More ›

• Day 4: Cottonwood – Marble Canyon

  By Deanna on June 8, 2013 • ( 7 )

  

  Today: 75km, 1093m elevation gain To date: 282km, 4,185m elevation gain To go: somewhere abouts 7, 720km Today was both a really good day and a really bad day.  Let’s start with the bad: Terrified out of my mind going… Read More ›

• Day 3: Nairn Falls – Cottonwood Recreation Site

  By Deanna on June 8, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  Today: 78km, 1286m elevation gain To date: 213 km, 3,128m elevation gain To go: about 7,790 km Today was the day I had heard about when I told people I was going to take the route through Squamish/Whistler/Lillooet… people always… Read More ›

• Day 2: Brackendale – Nairn Falls

  By Deanna on June 7, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  Today: 79km. 920m elevation gain To date: 134km, 1655m To go: 7,866 km …. I was lucky enough to get to ride with my brother today!  We set out around 9am after a slight debacle involving a toy left on… Read More ›

• Day 1: Horseshoe Bay – Brackendale

  By Deanna on June 4, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  55km, 686m gained To date: 55km, 686m To go: somewhere about 7,945 km give or take…. Today didn’t really feel like the start of an epic journey – it was more like a nice ride in the sunshine with my… Read More ›

• Throwing off the bowlines…. tomorrow

  By Deanna on June 3, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.  So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour, catch the trade winds in your sails…. Read More ›

• Cross Canada: Packing List

  By Deanna on May 31, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  As my departure date grows closer so does my panic and anxiety getting everything done.  Not only am I packing for my first fully self-supported long distance bike ride, but I am also moving out of my home – selling… Read More ›