I go back and forth between whether I like to plan ahead on things like travelling or whether I like to have a loose idea and just let a lot of things fall as they do and not stress whether I’m seeing the “best” possible thing with my time. While I’m a huge fan of […]
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Rich Aucoin bike blog #7: Little Rock, AK to Memphis, TN
Good writing is like giving sight to the blind. I’m sure an exercise in many creative writing programs is giving the age-old thousand words to a photograph of the writer’s choosing. I started listening to William Least Heat-Moon’s cross-American odyssey Blue Highways and it feels as if he’s describing a series of photographs he’s taken […]
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Rich Aucoin bike blog #6: Oklahoma City, OK to Little Rock, AK
I’ve luckily made it halfway across the country with no rain. In Oklahoma, an almost tornado-level storm passed through, but I had already made it into the city and snapped this photo of its near-constant lightning. Leaving Oklahoma, I noticed this huge structure that looked like a waterslide—turns out it was a non-profit outdoors centre […]
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Rich Aucoin bike blog # 5: Elk City to Oklahoma, OK
Remember that it’s all luck; we can only try to give ourselves more chances to obtain those lucky breaks. Anyone claiming to have accomplished something others consider great from their sheer will-power is either in some narcissist delusion or is failing to see all the variables surrounding them and their position. Many people we consider […]
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Rich Aucoin bike blog #4: Tucumcari, NM to Elk City, OK
Wind is the mountain you cannot see. At least that’s what it feels like as a cyclist going against it. You’re pedaling non-stop all day, no coasting. Better to just accept this fate and choose a low gear so that you’re at least making progress and holding that endurance up as long as you need […]
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Rich Aucoin bike blog # 2: Arcosanti to Gallup, NM
I took a few days off at the unbelievable rarity that is Arcosanti, a futuristic utopian community designed by artist Paolo Soleri. Looking like something out of a ’70s science-fiction, it was a great place to stay and write as I had access to their wonderful grand piano. […]
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Rich Aucoin bike blog #1: Los Angeles to Arcosanti
Ten years ago, I bicycled across Canada for my first music tour performing my own music under my name, Rich Aucoin. The Coast, which I had been delivering just prior to this trek, was kind enough to give me an outlet to blog about my adventures. Well, now we’re doing it again, if you want […]
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Touring Green – Blog 54: Halifax Final Post (August 17)
In this, my final blog, I would like to thank everyone who supported me as I made the trek; I could not have done it without you. I have said many a time too that I was just a small part of making this whole thing happen and that I was just the lone crowd […]
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Touring Green – Blog 53: Charlottetown to Halifax (August 11-15)
After the Charlottetown show, I was lucky to have a couple days break for the knee and even though I pushed it vigorously by playing some intense mini-golf on the island. After a couple days, it was time to leave that wonderful place where you can still by pop the way it should be sold, […]
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Touring Green – Blog 52: Fredericton to Charlottetown (August 5-11)
After a couple days rest (and almost not enough as the leg situation was getting pretty dire), I departed from Fredericton on a pouring rain day and made the venture late in the day to Sussex as I waited around all morning for a Fed-Ex that was given an incorrect suggested arrival time. No harm, […]
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Touring Green – Blog 51: Woodstock – Fredericton (August 4)
So today, surprisingly, was the longest stretch on the Trans-Canada that didn’t have anything for about 60km. From Woodstock to King’s Landing, it was a long morning low on water and food fuel to keep the bike legs spinning. Luckily, a huge burger, fries, pie, cinnamon bun, and a jug of water fixed that when […]
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Touring Green – Blog 50: Grand Falls to Woodstock (August 3)
So today starts off awesome; hot… not too hot like yesterday, hilly… not too hilly like the day before that, waterslidey… any amount of waterslidely is good. Funny that I knocked on wood for the hill situation and not for the impending doom situation. If you listen closely to that voice in the background over […]
