My Halifax Trip Write-up

[flyer]

Originally Posted by steveyo

Wow !! What an awesome trip! I've driven the northern bit of NS (Cape Breton) and I'd love to ride there someday. Thanks for the great write-up.

Do you feel your skill on the big wheel improved any over the course of the journey?

It definitely did. It was measurable too - at the beginning of the trip I was averaging 15ish km/h, and by the end it was closer to 18km/h cruising. Now that I've had a few months to get really used to it, I'm cruising around town at above 20km/h usually. Obviously I probably won't keep that sort of speed up over a day's ride (because I'm not ken looi!), but there was definitely a marked improvement.

I wouldn't be surprised if the trip made it way easier and faster to get comfortable on the Coker than it would otherwise have been, for sure.

[brian.slater]

I read this with great interest as I'm planning a similar trip on the C&O canal from Cumberland Maryland to Washington DC - 184 miles - for fall 2007. It won't have any (small? not in NS!) hills as yours did and there will be plenty of civilization(?) around, but the logistics will be the same: if it ain't in my backpack it won't be there.

Originally Posted by flyer

Dude: Don't take no offense now, but'cher fuckin' nuts.
Dave: I get that a lot.
Dude:: You from Newfoundland?
Dave: Yep.
Dude: hah! Tolja! *maniacal laughter*

Oh my gawd, a whole new set of "Foundie" jokes! Yeah, I heard about them from a relative in Antigonish.

Great pictures, especially the "Shadow Reads", the boats and Great Black Cat. And is that horse camera shy?

Originally Posted by joemarshall

You should do an extra long writeup of it for uni magazine, it's a great story.

Absolutely, please, please do this, Uni Mag will need stories like this, both in caliber and topic, to be the success that we all want it to be. Be sure to include your pictures!

All in all a great write-up of an excellent ride, thanks.

[underdog]

Really enjoyed your write-up. I've gotten pretty bored with all the same "which uni...,how do I...,etc." threads so I don't check in here very often lately. Sure am glad that I caught this thread before it slipped over to page 2 or 3. You're an inspiration.

[nathan]

Originally Posted by brian.slater

Absolutely, please, please do this, Uni Mag will need stories like this, both in caliber and topic, to be the success that we all want it to be.

Just remember that one of Uni Magazine's requirements for articles is that they haven't been posted anywhere previously, including online here. Not to discourage you at all as it would make a great article, but it would have to be all new content.

---Nathan

[U-Turn]

Way to go, Dave. There are two ways to do trips like this -- as a purist, and not. This comes up in backpacking all the time. If you are a purist, and get a ride into town for supplies, you have to get a ride back to the same place, and hopefully kick a tree or something before and after, to prove to yourself that you Walked the Entire Distance. If you are not a purist, but wish you were, there always is an element of not-quite-good-enough to your trip. Trouble is, it can be hard to fully not to be a purist.

This seems to be an art which you have mastered, and that is as much of an accomplishment as the trip itself. You had a fine adventure on a unicycle, and thanks to your writeup, we all could enjoy it too. Thanks!