Welcome friends to Team Ontario bikes the USA.
Though this happens to come about a month into our trip, better late than never right? Okay, so a brief update on what has been going on thus far in 200 words or less.
Elissar, Mare, Trish and I hop on multiple Greyhound busses from Toronto to New Orleans. 49 hours after leaving Ottawa, we arrive without our bicycles. Argh!!!!! We hang out with a house full of students from Tulane who are just about the most relaxed and easy going people I have ever met. After a couple of days and many phone calls to various bus stations, courtesy of Mare, our bikes when they finally arrive. Tearful reunion at the Greyhound station including Micheal from Bicycle Micheals saving our asses by delivering parts to the bus station for us. (Thank you, thank you, thank you!) Eventually, we hit the road towards Baton Rouge.
Three days, a crazy biker, six flats, a broken spoke and a bent rim latter, we land at Ryan, Jesse and Seth's place in Baton Rouge... Yee haw, we love crawfish, rollo bollo's and Dave's bike shop/backyard secret lair of touring cyclists dreams come true! From Baton Rouge, we get driven out of town by Jesse while listening to Snoop Dog and begin cycling from there.
Here are five post-Baton Rouge awesome moments for all y'all:
1 Staying with Henry and Geralyn in Simmesport. Eating Geralyn's amazing, amazing southern cooking and having a history/geography lesson from Henry.
2 NOT staying in the campground site which was surrounded with caution tape, a live wire and a tin roof with a really sketchy bar/tavern right next door in Washington. Oh yeah, and it was before a thunderstorm...
3 A really really cute cabin in Eunice where we slept in bunk beds and cooked french toast in the morning.
4 A sweet, sweet lunch at a restauraunt called Simply Country in Moss Hill, Texas. After chatting up locals and allowing them to be privy to our funny Canadian accents, we were treated to lunch by Melvin! Amazing!
5 Getting picked up in Dayton by our lovely Floridian host here in Houston. Kim, an aerospace engineer who works here in Houston, stuck two bike racks onto her car, all our paniers in her trunk and all of us in the car and drove us from Dayton to her beautiful apartment where we are staying for a couple of days. We will likely catch some live music, awesome food and fun times with her before heading towards Austin.
Stay tuned for more adventures and pictures from Team Ontario as we move further west...
Though this happens to come about a month into our trip, better late than never right? Okay, so a brief update on what has been going on thus far in 200 words or less.
Elissar, Mare, Trish and I hop on multiple Greyhound busses from Toronto to New Orleans. 49 hours after leaving Ottawa, we arrive without our bicycles. Argh!!!!! We hang out with a house full of students from Tulane who are just about the most relaxed and easy going people I have ever met. After a couple of days and many phone calls to various bus stations, courtesy of Mare, our bikes when they finally arrive. Tearful reunion at the Greyhound station including Micheal from Bicycle Micheals saving our asses by delivering parts to the bus station for us. (Thank you, thank you, thank you!) Eventually, we hit the road towards Baton Rouge.
Three days, a crazy biker, six flats, a broken spoke and a bent rim latter, we land at Ryan, Jesse and Seth's place in Baton Rouge... Yee haw, we love crawfish, rollo bollo's and Dave's bike shop/backyard secret lair of touring cyclists dreams come true! From Baton Rouge, we get driven out of town by Jesse while listening to Snoop Dog and begin cycling from there.
Here are five post-Baton Rouge awesome moments for all y'all:
1 Staying with Henry and Geralyn in Simmesport. Eating Geralyn's amazing, amazing southern cooking and having a history/geography lesson from Henry.
2 NOT staying in the campground site which was surrounded with caution tape, a live wire and a tin roof with a really sketchy bar/tavern right next door in Washington. Oh yeah, and it was before a thunderstorm...
3 A really really cute cabin in Eunice where we slept in bunk beds and cooked french toast in the morning.
4 A sweet, sweet lunch at a restauraunt called Simply Country in Moss Hill, Texas. After chatting up locals and allowing them to be privy to our funny Canadian accents, we were treated to lunch by Melvin! Amazing!
5 Getting picked up in Dayton by our lovely Floridian host here in Houston. Kim, an aerospace engineer who works here in Houston, stuck two bike racks onto her car, all our paniers in her trunk and all of us in the car and drove us from Dayton to her beautiful apartment where we are staying for a couple of days. We will likely catch some live music, awesome food and fun times with her before heading towards Austin.
Stay tuned for more adventures and pictures from Team Ontario as we move further west...
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