Raison d'Etre- Gramie turned 80 on Dec 08, 2022. When I asked her what she wanted to do for her birthday, she came up with an unusual reply. Instead of saying "Let's go somewhere special for dinner", she said that she wanted to bicycle across Canada again. I.e. she wanted to bicycle across this country as an 80 year old. As that was her wish, I quickly agreed and the wheels were put in motion. The fact that federal government was still in full COVID mode complicated our planning because my incomplete "vaccinations" did not permit flying to Vancouver with our bicycles to start the trip.
In April, we identified Budget as the company from which we would rent a car in Kingston and drop it off at the Vancouver airport. Budget had the most reasonable drop-off fee of $200. We also wanted to visit with people along the way out west, so driving made sense. We picked up the rental Toyota Corolla on April 19 and loaded the bicycles in the trunk and pass-through after removing the wheels. When we left Kingston, we had planned to start pedaling around May 1 and that's when I would start describing our experiences in our blog. When we loaded our bicycles before leaving, the daffodils at the front of our house were just starting to bloom as is shown in this picture of Gramie with our neighbour, Betty.
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