I've been half an hour in this warm room, but the mass of ice and facial hair is still holding fast to my helmet's chin bar, a testament to its impressive volume. It'll be a while yet before I can pull it off. The patrons of the inn are a tad unnerved by the facial glacial-fed river now running into the lobby from the head waters of, well, my head. What judgements of this incoherent, lumbering eccentric must now fill whispered … [Read more...]
For the Love of ADV
“...regardless of the scientists that insist my efforts would be better spent unearthing clues to where the wild things went” -Shane Koyczan After two days of steady, warm summer rain, I pull into the Mega-Lo Food Trough parking lot where the familiar childhood scent of earthworms on wet pavement fills my olfactories with its heady waft. A dozen or so people with harried suburban lives deny me eye contact as they shuffle past … [Read more...]
World Class ADV in Ontario—Lawrence Hacking’s Overland Adventure Rally
The fruit fly on the edge of my glass bathes in the heady vapours of an Irish brew-master's art as he and I share in the ambiance of the raucous crowd toasting in unison to the day that was. And what a day indeed. Scanning the room, my senses hone in on their individual tales of glory. In a far corner booth just out of earshot, three grey haired men exuberantly mime wheelies like hormonally confused teen aged boys … [Read more...]
Seize the Weekend—A Father and Son Adventure in Grey Bruce
Life Has But A Finite Number of Perfect Weekends: Saugeen Maitland Big Dog Ride by Brokentooth I let out strands of line from the grass trimmer head. This gives the whirling mass a new pitch much like the sound of angry bees preparing to swarm. Across the lawn my son blinks the stinging sweat from his eyes as he labours up hill pushing 4 horses of rotating fury. Squinting into the cloudless sky I look for some epiphanic wisdom to … [Read more...]