Blogs from Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada, North America - page 3

Just wanted to let you know what we are looking at doing in Sedona. For a good time, check out the info on the HeartWalk Center in Sedona. They have lots of interesting "beliefs". Gail and Sue are believers to some extent but had a good laugh. We are most interested in dealing with the issues in our tissues, no matter how we get there. Here is Gail's email to Leon and Phoenix... Hi Sedona at Heart Walk people, My name is Mary Gail Eikelenboom (age 55) and my friend Suzanne Wilkins (age 57) plan on vacationing in Sedona. We both have autoimmune problems fribromyagia and arthritis, so we are not looking for strenuous activities. I tried to email through your site but had tech problems...(the story of Gail's life). I am interested in having us ... read more

Well, we are getting ready for the Blazing BLister's Vacation of 2009. Mary Gail and Sue are friends by chance and decided that we could be sisters by choice. And after one particularly funny trip, when we laughed and laughed, we decided that we could be the Belly Laughing Sisters...or BListers. Last year we had a wonderful trip to Mexico but no one is going to Mexico now with the H1N1 aka Swine Influenza. Even with heading to Arizona, both of us have sons named Chris and both of these guys, independently, wanted to make sure we knew there was flu afoot and maybe we wanted to rethink our trip?? No way!! Gail and Sue have decided that if either of us gets sick on vacation and dies, the other one will have the dead one ... read more

Hi Folks, I'm in Saul St. Marie Ontario. I actually had 2 days in a row with no rain, of course it's pouring as I type this!!! Wind has been kicking in but no serious climbing yet, the terrain is mostly flat to rolling hills. The ride along the north channel of Lake Huron has been beautiful and everyone keeps telling me the North Shore of Lake Superior is even better. I've got 3200 Km's in now, so I stopped at a bike shop here, Velorution, to get my pedals lubed and tighten the rear cog set, (I noticed some looseness). No charge for any of the work!!! They also offer free camping to tourists, (wish I had known that last night!!!). I've seen quite a few tourists, including 2 guys riding recumbents, heading east, but ... read more

Back to Back Roads Sunday, 19 August 2007 Today was yet another attempt to ride a road branching off of the Trans Canada Highway. This time I took Silver & rode without problem to Echo Bay, which I’d already passed through once, on my trip yesterday. But this time I went to the left off the highway, through the town, to join up with highway 638. Unfortunately for me there is some major road construction taking place, as the government is finally creating a 4-lane highway on this stretch of the Trans Canada. So I somehow missed my turn onto 638 & wound up on some back roads, which were paved initially but soon degraded into gravel roads. Fortunately they were not as difficult to navigate as the soft ones I’d ridden on in Saskatchewan & ... read more

Discouragement in the Soo Friday, 17 August 2007 Today was a difficult day for me. There was a road which appeared to be quite inviting on the map, something like the ones I’d tried in Wawa & Fort Frances. However, between the weather conditions, VERY windy, rainy & cold, and the type of road, not so many hills but looong ones, fairly steep too, I had to call it quits after only 10 kilometres and call for a “pick-up”. It’s as if Someone was telling me not to go, because the weather cleared up temporarily while I made the decision not to proceed & called Bob - had to use the satellite phone, as the cell phone had no service there. The weather then got crappy again when I decided to continue until the “white knight ... read more