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From the spark to the real thing: The long preparation before the trip

The plan: All the parameters for this big trip

The preparation

All that stuff: First luggage test

News and stats

More ready then ever!: If that cold weather could just stop!!!!!!!

The cycling season just started: Riding in the thirdies

Next entry will be on the road: Last minute stuff...

Day Zero: Getting out of home

Day One: Going to the Parc national de la Gaspésie's visitor center

Day Two: The Sterling has been conquered

Day Three: Some more experience points!

Day 4: Getting rid of some stuff

Day 5: Rest day: Nice quiet place to lie down in the rain

Day 6: A sign, maybe?

Day 7: Head winds, drizzle and grinded pavement

Day 8: Berry patch campground: what we need

Day 9: Disappointment at Berry patch: Mosquitoe patch and jerk hole

Day 10: Wind? I trained in cap-Chat, man...land of the wind generators...

Day 11: The more you try the harder it gets....

Day 12: Getting along with New-B for the first time...

Day 13: Riding easy

Day 14: Cycling as a day off

Day 15: Keep heading south

Day 16: Crashing into a real bed

Day 17: Missed it

Day 18: Nova Scotia: at last!

Day 19: Still loving Nova Scotia

Day 20: Rolling terrain

Day 21: Meeting first tourer on a strong wind day

Day 22: Showers not included

Day 23: Arriving into Halifax

Day 24: Hey! it's the Tall Ships event!

Day 25: Shopping in Halifax

Day 26: Passing by Peggy's Cove

Day 27: Drizzle...patch of fog...drizzle...light rain...

Day 28: A day in the rain as we promised ourselves never to do...

Day 29: Day off in Lunenburg

Day 30: Going back to Mahone Bay: seeing what we've missed the first time

Day 31: Cut the day in half with the ferry

Day 32: A big day to Thomas Raddall park

Day 33: Day off: what!? Again!?

Day 34: More headwinds; a storm is coming

Day 35: An easy day to Barrington Passage

Day 36: Day off in Barrington Passage

Day 37: West center Pubnico, do not mistake it for Lower East Pubnico!

Day 38: Cycling, taking the ferry and engaging custom agents

Day 39: Hunting that i-94

Day 40: Day off: Walking around in Bar Harbor.

Day 41: Day off: Cycling the park loop, climbing mount Cadillac

Day 42: Kayaking on the wild side

Day 43: Leaving Acadia: Good bye, I'll miss you

Day 44: Small campsite at Belfast

Day 45: Small day to Camden Hills State Park

Day 46: Lake, crowd and jaccuzis

Day 47: Up...and down....up....and down.....

Day 48: Day off at the mall

Day 49: L.L. Bean, the store that began in a barn

Day 50: Did we hit a plateau?...in our training?

Day 51: Coming closer to Ogunquit, quebecker's dream

Day 52: A decadent day off

Day 53: Bike touring IS a dangerous activity

Day 54: Entering New Hampshire

Day 55: Sleeping with the ennemy

Day 56: Could have been a nice campground

Day 57: Arriving in Boston: welcome well earned confort!!!

Day 58: A vacation from a vacation...does it work!?

Day 59: Walking ten miles in Boston

Day 60: The Emerald Necklace

Day 61: Back at the Minuteman campground

Day 62: Massachussetts at its best

Day 63: Entering Connecticut

Day 64: In a real bed at Windsor Locks

Day 65: Nice countryside and thoughts about globalisation

Day 66: Entering New York...state

Day 67: It's getting better and better

Day 68: The big bridge

Day 69: Birthday today, should I expect it to end well?

Day 70: Riding out the anger

Day 71: "Hollidays" or "everyone out of work at the same time get it more complicated"

Day 72: Encounter at Bull Island

Day 73: A state park just to ourselves

Day 74: Decaying beauty

Day 75: A hard start from Norristown

Day 76: Another tropical storm?

Day 77: Nice day in a drizzle: is it possible?

Day 78: Some things works, some don't

Day 79: Warm showers dot org

Day 80: Ending with a challenge

Day 81: Buzy back roads

Day 82: Goodbye Washington Grove

Day 83: Day off in Arlington

Day 84: WOD trail and lake Fairfax

Day 85: Will we ever get to Bear's Den!?

Day 86: "It's all downhill"...yeah, yeah, I heard that before

Day 87: Skyline: are we really up to this?

Day 88: Nice and slow

Day 89: Day off in deer land

Day 90: "The fog" or "The day the world took a day off"

Day 91: Pinned down by the rain

Day 92: Sinking into the valley

Day 93: The longest day of our trip...yet...

Day 94: The """Lodge"""

Day 95: High peak and low on food

Day 96: On the crest

Day 97: Commuting in Roanoke: getting exhausted on a day off

Day 98: A real day off this time

Day 99: Pushing the limit

Day 100: Taking pictures of Mabry Mill: how original

Day 101: Change of plans, for the better

Day 102: Scary forecasts

Day 103: One of two days off

Day 104: Just taking a walk

Day 105: Bridges and a viaduct

Day 106: Grey shades

Day 107: My worst day...ever

Day 108: The life of the rich and famous

Day 109: Growing back some fat in a motel room

Day 110: A last slice of the Blue Ridge: getting back to reality

Day 111: Not on the Blue Ridge, neither on ACA routes: on our own

Day 112: Trying to make the best of it

Day 113: The fifty miles that made all the difference

Day 114: The flying Garmin

Day 115: The South Carolina you would never see on TV

Day 116: Chilly mornings, warmer afternoons (of course)

Day 117: The first palm tree

Day 118: My first Armadillo

Day 119: All about numbers

Day 120: Still on the food hunt and route plotting

Day 121: Leaving South Carolina with some good riding

Day 122: Shopping in Statesboro

Day 123: First oppossum (road kill), loose chasing dogs and live oppossum: what a day!

Day 124: Cheap motel in Jesup

Day 125: Making our own way

Day 126: Entering Florida

Day 127: Easy going

Day 128: Some good news on the weather radio

Day 129: Wanna go left or right?

Day 130: Heavy winds....pushing us!

Day 131: More sun, more warmth

Day 132: Anastasia rocks!

Day 133: Some new planning

Day 134: Sightseeing in Saint-Augustine

Day 135: Wildlife

Day 136: News from home and around the world

Day 137: Goodbye Anastasia

Day 138: A day off at Gamble Rodgers SP

Day 139: Surprises and revelations

Day 140: Fleeing the saturday's hysteria

Day 141: Sorting out what we've learned yet

Day 142: Taking it easy at Wickam

Day 143: Back in the wild, with birds and all

Day 144: Nice places and guess what: it's summer again....

Day 145: The shortest touring day of our trip (day zero doesn't count)

Day 146: Expectations

Day 147: Tiny insects, hard bites

Day 148: Checking-in at Jonathan Dickinson SP

Day 149: Commuting around

Day 150: Keep your hands on the boat at all times

Day 151: The storm that never came

Day 152: Sleepless night and some news from my spy

Day 153: Hmmm....Crema Mexicana

Day 154: Fort Lauderdale story

Day 155: Day off again

Day 156: Water taxi

Day 157: Downtown Miami

Day 158: Out of Miami

Day 159: The Keys, finally

Day 160: Shortest day of our trip

Day 161: Growing back some fat

Day 162: Beyond paradise

Day 163: The long bridge

Day 164: Last details in the planning of the Dry Tortugas volunteering

Day 165: Wrestling our way into Key west

Day 166: Thinking about Dry Tortugas

Day 167: The big question

Day 168: Another walk, another swim

Day 169: Back to Long Key State park

Day 170: Back to John Pennecamp

Day 171: Back to the KLK

Day 172 to 178: Keys: land of noise

Day 179 to 184: Big bed, bubbles and time to waste

Day 179 to 184: Big bed and time to waste

The end: Victims of incompetence

The new beginning

The new plan

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