Solo Touring

[Tri Girl]

Glad you're back home safe and sound. What a great guy! I'm always on the skeptical side when it comes to strangers, so I'm not sure that if I took a tour all alone I would venture out and talk to many people.

[shootingstar]

I haven't done any overnight solo bike tours myself yet. But based on what I hear from others, sometimes people are curious about solo cycling tourers.

One woman I know when she was solo bike touring in Ireland, whenever she asked where she was going while she was cycling/temporarily stopping, she occasionally told the person her boyfriend was just ahead of her. She assessed each situation.

Twice when I was bike touring in Nova Scotia out in the countryside with dearie, 2 different female car drivers stopped along the way to ask if I was in "trouble" or if I was ok.

I was. I just stopped for a breather. Dearie was 2-3 kms. ahead of me.
It was kind of each woman driver.

[Trek-chick]

Glad you are back. This has been my favorite thread on the forum. I would love to do a solo tour one day. Looking forward to the pictures. Sounds like it was a great trip for you.

[footloose]

So glad you're back and enjoyed yourself so thoroughly! You experienced the same kind of treatment from people that I have while motorcycling all over North America. People are wonderful!

Now make sure you contact me when you plan your Ontario portion of the trip. As Shootingstar mentioned, summers here can be quite warm and humid but for someone from Florida shouldn't be a problem. We don't get hurricanes but we get afternoon thunderstorms sometimes and the odd tornado. But it's flat here and you can see them coming.... There's also lots of perfectly normal, mild days.

I'll assist you any way I can and maybe I'll even get to ride with you for a bit.

Anne-Marie (wyndyacre at yahoo.ca)

[shootingstar]

We don't get hurricanes but we get afternoon thunderstorms sometimes and the odd tornado. But it's flat here and you can see them coming.... There's also lots of perfectly normal, mild days.

Before you freak out bikingtourook, southwestern Ontario's tornadoes are VERY rare.

[jezbael]

Wow, you're my hero. Thank you for keeping us up to date!

[footloose]

Before you freak out bikingtourook, southwestern Ontario's tornadoes are VERY rare.

Yes, that's true!

[Biketouringrook]

Thanks for the info on thunderstorms....because I will absolutely "freak out" at he hint of one. I pushed almost 70 miles back to Milford because I was told that a storm was expected later in the evening. It did rain, but no fireworks.

Here are just a few photos from my tour.