We used to live in Vic, but haven’t come down much lately because it’s been hard to afford a place to stay, then paying for parking and gas the whole weekend ends up being a lot. This time we had an idea. We’ll camp out near town and bike into the downtown area for the day.
I work in an office. I also work just over 50 km from home, which is a bit too long to commute. I spend altogether too much time driving a car for someone who is anti-car. I try to supplement it by listening to bikepacking podcasts, anti-car urbanism podcasts and, well heavy music, but I’m still missing my bike time.
Had a window of sunshine and relatively warm weather, so I took advantage.
It was the end of summer, right when things were getting nice and golden outside. The smoke was finally clearing a bit, and the heat dome had lifted. Leaves had a tiniest hint of gold. You know.
So a homeschool group in Royston, B.C. decided to do a cool project over COVID-19. They built a scale model of the solar system with the Earth being roughly the size of a golf ball. They made plywood signs with paintings of each of the planets and screwed them into power poles at their approximate distances from the “Sun.”
One of the first big rides I did here in the Comox Valley was going all the way up Forbidden Plateau. I wanted to find the snow. From what I can tell, the snow is still up there.
The idea is to get out and explore the area, especially routes that you may have not done before. The rides will be anything from easy road rides to big climbs, market stand-tours, gravel rambles and anything else that seems interesting.
The idea is to get out and explore the area, especially routes that you may have not done before. The rides will be anything from easy road rides to big climbs, market stand-tours, gravel rambles and anything else that seems interesting.
