It is a very gray and rainy day here at home in Toronto. It gives me some relief that the bad weather was not special for our bike trip. Weather is a tricky one and getting trickier by the year. When I first heard of the BT 700 many years ago, it scared me. I…

We are home and I am tired so I’ll be super brief tonight. Basically the ride from Mansfield to Toronto is something we’ve all done a few times before so much of the ride is well worn for us. We did follow the official route a little in the morning with some new bits. Super…

We rolled out of the campground at about 9:45 and headed to the main strip of Collingwood for second breakfast. The place we were looking for was closed but they recommended another the corner. Breakfast poutine is a new favorite of mine – poached eggs, home fries, sausage, bacon, onion, cheese and hollandaise. The waitress…

Yesterday’s post in case you issued it. So those young people riding laps with loud music around the campground were our neighbors. And they liked to party all night. I went over to their site at 1 am and again at 3 to ask/tell them to be quiet. Didn’t work. Wasn’t the best night sleep…

We all slept in a little and had a leisurely morning since Michael’s shots wouldn’t be ready until late morning. I’m not sure what you’d call a breakfast that includes oatmeal, dutchies, apple turnovers, yogurt, blackberries, bananas and copious amount of coffee, but that’s what we had. We arrived at camp late the night before…

Didn’t have good enough signal last night to publish a post before the email got sent, so in case you missed it go to https://chadbikes.to/bt-700/day-2-to-port-elgin/ We all agree that today was pretty much a perfect day on a bike. We had tons of variety terrain wise, from flowy singletrack to crappy rec trail to fast…

It rained most of the night and didn’t stop just because we woke up. After we reluctantly climbed out of our tents we went to the rec room and made breakfast and coffee under the awning. Don’t hit the road until almost 11.  It was a light rain for about half the day, grey and…

For the second time in a row I was up at 6 to start this trip. It worked this time. Met Michael at his place at 7:30, Gary at the train station at 8:15, on the train 30 minutes late and an hour and a half after that in Kitchener. We rode all of 20…

No sense in swimming on a bike trip. We will try again tomorrow which looks a little better. Still managed to squeeze in a little ride with Michael around town though.

On Saturday, Gary, Michael and I will be getting an early train to Kitchener to start the Butter Tart Express (née BT 700). This route is probably Ontario’s most well known and popular bikepacking outing, and its pretty surprising that we are just now getting around to it. Truth be told, its not exactly a…