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December 18, 2012
It seems every direction we look we see ancient stone walls being reclaimed by the earth. It’s part of the beauty and charm of the smaller villages here in France, especially during the winter season. Besides the odd town resident sighting, it’s mainly what introduces life and colour into the otherwise quiet and stark concrete […]
November 30, 2012
It was getting harder and harder to get out of bed. We’d been off the bikes for much longer than anticipated and the sun had been shrouded in fog and mist for days. It was getting down right cold, cold to the bone. The thick knitted camping sweater and seven-dollar turtleneck I bought the week […]
October 29, 2012
The world has been shrinking before our eyes and beneath us for the past one hundred days. The road east through Canada seems to have continuously stretched its long loose arms onward, outward and upward so high that off in the distance, it is as though we were destined for the clouds, or sun, or […]
October 25, 2012
The Acadians; the French inhabitants of Acadia – now New Brunswick, PEI and Nova Scotia were deported to various parts of the world by the British between 1755-1763 during Le Grand Dérangement. Families were torn from their homes, their land and many were split apart never to see each other again. While some were moved to […]
October 24, 2012
During our stay in Halifax this past September, after shipping our motorcycles overseas, Issa and I were lucky enough to have been taken in, both in heart and home, by a beautiful little family known as the Nowlan family. We wanted to share with you in their own words something they shared with us just this […]
August 30, 2012
I like to sing in my helmet and frequently Issa chimes in, over the headset, as my boy soprano. Sometimes, its a song you may recognize, but a lot of the time its what I call a “One hit wander” often beginning with an A and slowly wandering off into an F (much like my […]