Day 56: Jade City Jade City, British Columbia, marks the top of Highway 37 just before the Yukon border. The entire city is run and owned by one family: the one general store, the one restaurant, the gift shop, the laundromat, and the hotel. According to the owners, ninety percent of the world’s Jade is […]
Day 55: Love, Light, and Laughter I was able to play with a beautiful dog today, visit a tucked-away bookstore in the Canadian wilderness, and pretend to pan for gold in a wild stream. But on our 65-mile ride from Tatogga to Dease Lake today, I also thought of Joy and Ed Lindsey. Joy “Aunty,” […]
Day 54: Tatogga Report from Northwestern Canada: – Weather remains fickle. For the first twenty miles from Bell II to Tatogga, there was a light drizzle. From mile twenty to forty, the sun smiled on us. Forty to sixty there was a downpour, and from sixty to the end – around mile 87 – the […]
Day 53: Bell II Lodge We think ten weeks is a long time to be on the road. We feel as if biking 70-80 miles every day for 70 days is plenty. We go five or six days without a shower and crave warm water to clean the chain grease off our bodies. As we […]
Day 52: The Woods are Lovely, Dark, and Deep “The woods are lovely, dark, and deep. But I have promises to keep. And miles to go before I sleep And miles to go before I sleep.” -Robert Frost We entered the great Canadian wilderness today, the northwestern semi-frontier dotted by small communities of five or […]
Day 50: Where Rivers Meet and Friends Gather After a grueling 82-mile ride beginning Burns Lake against a headwind, we landed in Telkwa, a “First Nations” word that means “Where Rivers Meet and Friends Gather.” (The First Nations people are indigenous to Canada). Pastor Joe Ellis of the Telkwa Reform church treated us to live […]
Day 49: Sunset at Burns Lake We rode 82 miles from the Mennonite Church where we stayed in Vanderhoof to Burns Lake today. At Burns Lake, a small town noted for its outdoor activities, Rosalie and her husband hosted all the boys in their home overlooking the Lake. (The girls stayed with the pastor of […]
Day 48: What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger On our day out of Prince George, we learned the story of Dylan M, the nephew of Dorrie. His tale begins with Dorrie Sharcott, our host “PG Mom” in Prince George, who has been connected with Texas 4000 from 2004. She knows exactly what we need, […]
Day 47: A Rest Day in Prince George Every so often, our team quits biking for a day to “rest.” Usually our rest day involves some combination of visits to a local cancer support foundation (in Dallas, Amarillo, and Denver), fundraising events (in Dallas, Denver, and Big Fork), and alternative physical activity (whitewater rafting, swimming). […]
Day 46: Hell Yeah Prince George I drove the “cool van” (the one that doesn’t pull out trailer) into Prince George, British Columbia today. A city of 80,000, PG represents the last major opportunity we have to stock supplies before reaching Anchorage. My job? Seek any necessary items from grocery stores and bike shops. On […]
