The northern summer sun is still playing with me. I was up early again. After the running around of yesterday, I had me a nice slow morning, practicing Spanish and doing a bit of reading over brekkie at my picnic table. It was past 9am when I finally left camp, not to return to this…

I was up early, excited for the day ahead. What I’ve eluded to until now is that Dan has been making his way north from Phoenix towards Banff. When it became clear he had a month to kill, it didn’t take long for him to decide to drive north and meet me. He’d been close…

For no reason at all, I was up at 6:30am and wide awake so I packed up and left. Just shy of an hour later, I had to fill up with petrol but a nice man in a vest did so for me (a lot of servos in Canada do the pumping for you). He…

Not long after I got on the road, a reindeer grazing by the road bid me good morning and I left Manitoba for Saskatchewan. After the sign welcoming me into the new province, farmland stretched for miles in every direction with hardly a mound or non-fenced piece of land to break it up. This was…

I’d been through a time zone last night so I woke up early. I nearly cut my hair off I was so pissed off with it, but it has lived to see at least one more day. After breakfast, I hit the road heading into Winnipeg. Bike shop was first on the agenda and I…

The sun wouldn’t let me go to sleep and now it woke me up! By 8am, it was warm inside the van thanks to the early rising ball of fire. I took the hint and got myself up. I drove out of my secret camp and joined the highway along with everyone else, feeling quite…

I woke up early and didn’t waste time in setting off. After a brekkie perusing the hiking map of the Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, I drove into the park and stopped at the first pay machine to buy my $14.50 day ticket. The man at the campground yesterday had suggested a couple of hikes that…

Staying up later thanks to the late sunsets mean I have been sleeping in. I did so this morning, not getting on the road until just before 10am. Having poked around on Instagram a bit to find a mate of mine riding through the mountains of Revelstoke in B.C., I did feel a sudden sense…

I was woken up a few times in the night, not because of highway traffic noise, but the sound of rain and thunder overhead. It rained persistently all night and continued on into the morning. A few times I’d woken and thought I should probably put my water catching bags up but I was too…

No bears in the night thankfully, just a still meadow to wake up to. I got up and drove straight out of camp. The tall grass and flowers didn’t make for the best sitting outside so I resolved to have brekkie elsewhere. I drove out onto the main park road and turned off at the…