Cycling

Over the course of six days we cycle from Montreal to Sherbrooke, Quebec. Each day the weather improved, each day the fall colors became more intense, and each day the scenery arguably became a bit nicer.

During the summer of 2025, we cycled around Calgary on the Rotary/Mattamy Greenway, covering 330 km in 10 stages. This bikeride allowed us to discover parts of the city that we’ve not visited before.

We finish our exhilarating ride across the bridges of the Shimanami Kaido. At the halfway point, we spend the night in a traditional Japanese house from the 1950s.

In part one of our Shimanami Kaido cycling adventure, we do the Onomichi temple walk and we cycle across two bridges to Ikuchijima Island.

On a beautiful sunny day, we cycle past rice paddies and temples near Okayama, Japan.

Using the city of Tsuchiura as a base, we explore the bicycle pathways of the Ring-Ring Road north of Tokyo, Japan.

On the second loop of our cycling trip of PEI, we sample some superb seafood chowder in Murray Harbour, our bike lock seizes at Greenwich Beach, and we stay in a B&B beside a haunted mausoleum.

On our first loop of our PEI cycling trip, we explore the red-sand beaches of PEI National Park, we witness Fiona’s destruction, and we sample tasty seafood in Victoria-by-the-Sea.

At the end of our drive across Canada, we cycle the 200 km long P’tit Train du Nord bike path through the Laurentians, north on Montreal. The fall colours (maples) where at their peak.