Our last few days in NYC contained a visit to the UN, Rockerfeller, Central Park Zoo and a Broadway Show (Jerusalem — amazing!). Central Park was a nice change from the big city… ‘earthy smells’. On the 4th, we caught a cab to Newark airport to catch our connecting flight to Toronto, then to London. […]

It’s a hell of a town! We arrived late yesterday evening in muggy Newark after 12 hours of plane travel and made our way to the Park Central hotel where we are staying for 3 nights. With suits on we explored a little, had a few beers and then hit the hay to rest up […]

We figured that prior to our big cycling trip around Vancouver Island that we’d go for a “warm-up” ride to and around Salt Spring Island. We had set aside the August long weekend, loaded our panniers and set off on Friday evening. We stayed the first night on Jordan’s friend’s sailboat. Rather luxurious way to […]