The Trans-Canada Trail runs a path across our country over the course of more than 20,000 kilometres.
It winds through every province and every territory, from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Arctic Oceans.
When completed it will link up to 1000 communities. Right now it’s about 70 per cent developed and can be used to walk, hike, cycle, ski, horseback ride, canoe and snowmobile.
The trail is easy for a few hours of cycling as a lot it has been developed on old railway lines and thus has a very modestgrade, never more than 4 per cent incline. Trains don’t do uphill very well.
When this rider was about three years old we cycled to a small town called Alton. We had a contraption called a trail-a-bike — a one-wheeled half-bike with pedals and a seat that attached to the seat stem of the adult bike. Then-five-year-old Nicholas managed that one while La Princessa rode with books and snacks in a trailer behind her papa’s bike.
This time, however, we were travelling on eight wheels.
No towing!
Sometimes the journey felt like a long one …
… but the roadside attractions along the way were many and varied …
… and the treats at the end re-energized even the weariest traveller.
The Country Mice 
I like these very much. Especially girl taking rest during bike ride and your girl looking down the road towards the bike.
What processing?
Mary
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