It was another hot day in Toronto today. El Franco and I went out on our bikes to donate some no-longer-needed books to a local library branch and soon realized the temperature wasn’t exactly conducive to cycling around the city streets, which is what we’d originally intended to do. The heat was sultry with barely …
Tag Archive: cycling
Jun 30 2011
A funny thing happened on the way to the garbage bin
Just as I was emptying the garbage this evening, I heard the faint sound of a trumpet piercing the still, warm, end-of-June air. Gradually getting closer and closer, the sounds of some blues piece drifted by as a lead cyclist rode along and played the trumpet and a whole, huge crowd of other cyclists followed, …
Jun 02 2010
A street named Shirley
We went out for bike ride on Sunday, trying to find the entrance to a new bike path named the West Toronto Railpath. It took us about 20 minutes to wend our way through the West End until we finally reached Landsdowne, which is where the website map shows the (supposed) southern end of the …
May 19 2010
Going The Distance For Mental Health
A colleague of mine is having an adventure of a lifetime at the moment – he’s cycling all the way across Canada to raise money for the Griffin Centre, a non-profit, charitable, mental health agency providing essential services to youth, adults and their families in Ontario. Martin started a blog to record his journey from …
Aug 24 2009
Luna Café
I hadn’t been out on my own on my bicycle for quite a while, so it was with much pleasure that I set off from home on two wheels yesterday afternoon, to wander the streets and weave my way through the west of the city in search of hidden gems. It doesn’t always happen that …

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