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Video clips on the net: Cycling downhill to Lake Superior Cycling across Ontario (between Fort Frances and Kenora)

I come to this place everyday and sit at a table logged onto the internet. Today, opposite me, some guy in a Cancun baseball cap is hitting the keys of his laptop like it’s a drum kit, making the table shake. The library closes at 1pm today so in 55 minutes I’ll have to venture …

Just put some more images up on my video stills website. They’re of the bit going around Lake Superior, the first day of that section, which took a week to do and was one of the toughest parts of the ride, but also one of the best: amazing scenery and I met some good people. …

Some carol singers just came in to the internet cafe banging tambourines and asking for money. If it hadn’t been for the tambourines I might have given them something. Don’t trust groups of people with tambourines.

I’ve not written much while I’ve been in Vancouver because it doesn’t feel like much has been happening, though that hasn’t stopped me writing things before. At the moment I’m on the fourth floor of the Vancouver Public Library, where there’s free internet access, though it’s generally pretty slow, depending on how many people are …

Sitting inside the warm library but outside it’s snowing. I’ve been trying to arrange a boat across the Pacific to China or India but it doesn’t look like this will be possible. I’d have to have a medical here, which would be expensive, and I’d also have to have proof of onward travel, like a …

It’s time to leave the rock and go back to the other side. A bit sad, but things change. It’s been good to get to know people here and feel part of a community, sort of. I always feel like an outsider wherever I am. I’m now looking into getting a boat across the Pacific, …