ConnecTour Chronicles Archives

COVID panic? Keep calm and carry on with bike tour planning

Posted by Doug Firby | Apr 21, 2021 | ConnecTour, FREE content, Get outside, Life, Things to do in Canada, Travel

This is part 1 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

TRAVEL: Four of the five members of the core group who plan to cycle across the country have had their first shots. We’re ready to go (FREE)

ConnecTour Chronicles: Kindness comes in a bucket of ice and jug of water

Posted by Doug Firby | Jun 3, 2021 | ConnecTour, Eye on BC, FREE content, Get outside, Life, Travel

This is part 2 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

CYCLING TOURS: As the searing heat began to wear us down, we sought refuge at an RV park on the Similkameen River, still churning furiously with the spring runoff (FREE)

ConnecTour Chronicles: One man’s gear is another man’s gold

Posted by Travel Like This | Jun 7, 2021 | ConnecTour, Eye on BC, FREE content, Get outside, Life, Things to do in Canada, Travel

This is part 3 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: Across from our campsite sat a gangly young man named Scott, who had been homeless for 10 years and was trying to find some normalcy (FREE)

ConnecTour Chronicles: A brush with heat stroke and then hypothermia

Posted by Doug Firby | Jun 10, 2021 | ConnecTour, Eye on BC, FREE content, Get outside, Travel

This is part 4 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: Transport trucks, cars and four-by-fours roared by us, some so close we were showered in road spray and rocked by the wind gusts (FREE)

ConnecTour Chronicles: Content to live with old mining town’s ghosts

Posted by Doug Firby | Jun 15, 2021 | ConnecTour, Eye on BC, FREE content, Get outside, Things to do in Canada, Travel

This is part 5 in our series ConnecTour Chronicles

CONNECTOUR CHRONICLES: Some of our group chose to sleep outside in tents rather than risk the ire of these troubled spirits. Two brave souls slept inside (FREE)