Last Sunday I rode the final 23km on my journey from Victoria BC to Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Tons of people showed for the event; the Invisible Children roadies got their message out. For more on this check out the article: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/wheel+goal/1742255/story.html

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Up to North Bay I was right on schedule, so North Bay to Ottawa went very smoothly. The mosquitoes however, were an experience. I had no places aligned to stay between North Bay and Pembroke, so I picked a rest stop that was almost exactly half-way. What the map didn't show was that the stop was right on a large pond, an ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes. It took about five stages to set up the tent: I'd pull it out and put it down and then run away as fast as I could to lose the mosquitoes. Then run back and do a few more thing.... Finally grab the bag and run inside. Read more...

The coolest thing about reaching North Bay was that the signs started showing distances to Ottawa! That really made it feel close to home.

There were quite a few of these signs after Sault Ste. Marie. I actually did see one too, a father and daughter bringing a whole trailer of flowers into town pulled by a horse. Cool.

I got into Sault Ste. Marie after eight solid days of riding from Thunder Bay. Upon arrival I headed over to Tony Martin's house for the night. As an MP Tony had great media connections and he set up all that for me, it was great! I got onto CTV, in the Sault Star (front page!), and on a local radio station. Well-rested (and very well-fed) I moved to my second host in the Sault, Doug. Doug had left last year on a bicycle heading across Canada for his retirement. It was really cool to talk and spend time there. Read more...

Riding around lake Superior one of the things I noticed was that every single small bend in the road was preceded by a sign, illustrating that bend. It seems excessive until a morning like this one where the fog seriously restricts visibility. I had a few mornings of fog, but on this one the fog hung around until well after noon in some areas so I had to ride through it.

Invisible Children put up an awesome blog post at blog.invisiblechildren.com about my trip!

Here's the full post (or see the original post):

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After leaving Thunder bay I took some time and stopped at the Terry Fox Memorial. It's quite an impressive piece of work, commemorating an unbelievably impressive feat by Terry. It was humbling.

Lake Superior is a beautiful lake. The day I left was bright, sunny, and had a great breeze for sailing. Here you can see the lake with some people sailing, and the Sleeping Giant dozing in the background.

Ice cream is an awesome thing to end a day of riding with, especially when it's with hosts as awesome as the ones I had in Wawa Ontario!

Ran into these two bicyclists riding west a few days ago. There were really cool, and impressed by my chocolate-milk-drinking-while-riding.

Some other cross-country-traveling people I've met on this trip include loads of people driving, and quite a few cyclists.
A few include:
Chris Young is riding west for the Heart and Stroke foundation. Read more...

On my ride from Kenora to Thunder Bay I finally managed to meet up with Bryan and Emilie, two cool people riding from Calgary to Thunder Bay on bicycles. We met up in Ignace, and stuck together pretty well right to Thunder Bay. Read more...

I didn't listen to the munchkins; I wanted to make it home without melting any witches.

I've been in touch with the Invisible Children CFO and found out something new: anyone who donated is absolutely eligible for an income-tax receipt, as long as I provide their name/mailing address and amount when I turn the money over to Invisible Children.

I'll be going through the list and if I don't have people's addresses I'll try to contact you to get it. If I don't contact you or you just want to be sure, email me with the info for confirmation.

Thanks to everyone for all the support, in every form. If you haven't yet and can, please donate. Read more...

I crossed the Arctic/Atlantic Watershed on the way into Thunder Bay. All the streams I see now drain to the Atlantic. I guess that means it should be downhill overall.