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Land of the midnight sun

On the morning of our departure from Whitehorse, we woke up to a cloudless blue sky and a warm summery feel in the air. The two days...

Quick Update: Road Trip Reflections

I have a love-hate relationship with road trips. On one hand, they’re long, and my body usually aches from too much time in the same...

Quick update: Roving the Rockies

I used to think Banff was overrated. After spending a week in and around the park I don't think that any more. I do think Banff just...

My Achilles' Heel

Most of you already know that on day 2 of our expedition, after a gruelling day of slow  snowshoe trudging in sugar snow, we decided to...

Grappling with the meaning of “Grit”

I HATE admitting weakness. I am someone who will likely be the first to tell a friend to listen to their body, to take care of their...

Quick Update: An Ode to Glacier National Park

Waking up in a puddle is disconcerting after a week of mostly blue skies, heady sunshine and lakeside lounging. Wet morning ride to the...

Quick Update: Butte to Big Fork

June 13th to 26th On our first day out of Butte, following the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route (GDMBR) heading North, we began to ride...

Quick update & blog backlog

West Yellowstone to Lima (Deadwood Gultch): Back to the start (ish) May 30th, 2022 After leaving Yellowstone, we took a slightly...

Where the buffalo roam

“Would you ladies like to put your bikes in the truck and hop in for a bit?” Amaya and I exchanged relieved glances before nodding...

Yellowstone - Seeing the Sights

May 25th - Day 1 exploring Yellowstone "It's a bunch of holes, all different shapes and sizes!" exclaimed a women with a thick Brooklyn...

Quick Update:

“Weather today: Rain, Sun, Wind, Snow ? .. Yup" - A West Yellowstone hotel billboard After a warm send-off from Heather's parents we...

Bathroom ponderings

On the first night of our Y2Y traverse 2.0 - Bikes, we rode from the Deadwood Gulch Campsite (where we had been lounging for the past 3...

Lessons in flexibility

HEATHER If you were to ask my mother to describe me in a few words, easy going and flexible are probably not the first words that would...

Getting this horse on the road…

Two years ago Heather and I set our sights on this 5-month traverse, one year ago our plans had to be postponed due to COVID-19, in...

Reflections on adventurous womanhood

What are the qualities of an adventurous woman? A boundary-pusher, a breaker of the status quo, a defier of expectations? A woman who...

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