http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/BuscoGusto/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from BuscoGusto en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 06:51:44 +0000 Fri, 24 May 2013 06:51:44 +0000 Of all the distance travelled during an adventure it is often the last few kilometres that one remembers most vividly and fondly.The feeling of jagged stones being squeezed beneath a pair of spinning tires the contrast of soft moist leaves and sharp rigid branches brushing against skin or the taste of salty ocean air getting thicker by the minute these are the sensations one can expect to e http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Nova-Scotia/Halifax/blog-635241.html We were well into the fourth song when the man on my left side turned to me and shouted into my ear.We39ve got to get you up so you can daunce You39re going to daunce aren39t youDaunceYes daunceI took a moment to consider this. The guitars and stomping feet made it difficult to make out what he39d said but after a few seconds I realized I had stumbled upon yet another piece http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Prince-Edward-Island/Charlottetown/blog-632213.html In the last blog entry I had biked along the delightful cycling trails of Quebec on the Trans Canada Trail en route to New Brunswick.Almost immediately after crossing the border and biking through the town of Edmunston the trail deteriorated into a state that can only be described as mostly unusable. Gone were the young families the elderly and shrieks of laughter I heard along the trail in Q http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Moncton/blog-631175.html It was the best of trails it was the worst of trails. There were trails of fine gravel and rest stops then there were trails destroyed by washouts and abuse.My route from Montreal followed the Route Verte due east towards Sherbrooke then swung north to Quebec City. This portion of the Trans Canada Trail is a world class bike route that draws thousands of bicyclists of all ages each year taking http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Riviere-du-Loup/blog-630147.html So let me get this straight. You take french fries coat them in gravy then smother the whole thing with cheese curds That sounds pretty high in calories doesn39t it Make it a medium. No wait you better give me a large. This is after all an adventure dedicated to the element of fire.Before embarking on this journey a few people asked what bicycling across the country has to do with fire. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Quebec/Montreal/blog-628742.html Some say it39s the coldest summer we 39ever had. But I just call it the warmest winter. Man in front of the general store in Sioux Narrows on a chilly day at the end of JunePine needles and creosote. The smell hit me shortly after arriving to Ontario while bicycling south on Highway 71 between Kenora and Fort Frances. A brisk morning wind rushed over the treetops and into my face a wind http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Timmins/blog-626061.html It39s a bad year alright. Up to 3 million acres won39t be seeded this year in Manitoba. It39s worse in Saskatchewan they say it39s 11 million acres. Everything39s under water. Resident of Nesbitt MB on this year39s historic floodsStretching the entire width of Canada39s great plains all the way from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains to the boreal forests of the Nort http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Manitoba/Winnipeg/blog-619856.html How did you know my restaurant was here Owner of the Spur of the Moment Cafe the only restaurant in Glenwood ABThroughout the Southern prairies a number of towns rose from the dusty ground at the turn of the 20th century. Many were placed along the new railways to facilitate the shipment of grain or to support mining operations. In the roaring 192039s things began to bustle in this p http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/blog-618727.html It39s not the places you go that matter it39s the people you meet along the wayNormally I wouldn39t agree with this statement I39ve always valued the destinations while traveling but I admit that until now I39d never traveled by bicycle before not to mention through the Southeast corner of British Columbia.There is a certain spirit in the Kootenays. You can sense things are d http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Fernie/blog-616869.html As a continuation from my last blog entry riding along the Kettle Valley Railway KVR trail to the socalled Mile 0 in Midway British Columbia then picking up its sister railway the Columbia Western CW which runs another 175 kilometres to Castlegar in the Kootenay region of the province and finally a short section of the old Great Northern railway which traveled between Salmo and Nelso http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Nelson/blog-615930.html Coalmont welcomes you and will be delighted to serve you provided you are lucky enough to find us openI didn39t.The Kettle Valley Railway is an extinct line that at one time connected communities in the Southern interior of British Columbia between the towns of Hope and Midway the halfway point across the province towards Alberta. The railway opened on May 31 1915 and were intended to not onl http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Penticton/blog-615135.html Is that really a solar panel behind your bikeI could not have imagined a better icebreaker than a bike trailer with a solar panel. In fact even if it weren39t connected to anything at all it would still be worth dragging the darned thing up the Fraser Valley as I have been doing for the past 5 days.The answer is of course yes that is indeed a solar panel that I39ve hauled the 440odd ki http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Hope/blog-614128.html The Stinky Feet Project continues I will begin traveling across Canada by bicycle on May 12 2011. This 100day journey will cover up to 7500 km starting from Victoria British Columbia.There are three objectives of the journeyRaise funds for the Trans Canada TrailHarvest solar power to supply 100 of my electricity needsShare compelling and entertaining storiesphotos about CanadaI should prob http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Victoria/blog-608517.html Welcome to the Pacific Northwest the heart of the temperate rainforest. It is a thin strip of islands and fiords hemmed in by the Coast Mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west taking its shape from jagged rocks that were pushed up from the ocean floor eons ago.If this wasn't enough of a primoridal and wild place I am in the remote islands of Haida Gwaii formerly the Queen Charl http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Queen-Charlotte-Islands/blog-537859.html The ground bends and distorts underfoot as I gingerly make my way through the rainforest carefully finding my footing on a forest floor covered with a carpet of brilliant green moss and jumbled rotting wood. Each step is a carefully calculated hop or tiptoe across catwalks of fallen trees and branches each log lying on the remnants of older logs and coated with ferns and saplings. After just a http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Queen-Charlotte-Islands/blog-537606.html As a followup to my last log entry..On November 19 I performed a speech in Kingston about my Water Adventure to raise funds for a local charity called Able Sail Kingston which provides sailing opportunities and instruction to disabled sailors.About 75 people attended and the event raised over 2000 which blew away our expectations The event was calledHitchhiker's Guide to the Oceans A 460 http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/blog-458032.html It has been 6 months since returning home after the Water Adventure. Life has more or less returned to normal after a long hard period of adjustment. I am once again becoming comfortable with the difficult business of everyday life.The stress of returning to work dealing with pressing family issues finances moving into a new home and juggling extracurricular activities has begun to subside an http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Kingston/blog-450813.html I have disturbed the lives of one million flying fishI have witnessed and often instigated the wanton destruction of sailboat partsI have eaten badly and accumulated so many stomach bugs that they cancel eachother outBut now I am drinking champagne and toasting these sins becauseI have sailed around the worldThere. I said it. After 360 degrees of longitude and 25000 nautical miles of oce http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Panama/Panama/Panama-Canal/blog-394401.html Ah the warm sweet waters of the Caribbean Sea. It's good to be backThis is just a sumup blog of the Atlantico Project with random pictures from Brazil Tobago Grenada St. Vincent and the Grenadines St. Lucia and Martinique. I finally disembarked from Strega the yacht I had been sailing on since Australia while on an AroundtheWorld sailing rally. We came in 2nd over the finish line in http://www.travelblog.org/Oceans-and-Seas/Caribbean/blog-385745.html The rain began to pour down but the band played on.Reaching up into the sky with palms skyward we embraced the cold drops thundering down streams running through our hair dripping down our noses around the curves of our grinning mouths and soaking what if anything remained of our costumes. Our feet stomped wildly in ankledeep puddles in the cobblestone streets and all around us people http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Pernambuco/Recife/blog-383679.html