Ride 43 - **Insert Title**

Ride 43 - Insert Title

Ride ** - 9 Nov 2019
Distance **.*km (Distance to date **.*km)
Time *hrs **mins (Time to date **hrs **mins)

So I think as the end is getting near, I'm losing focus a little!! At this point, I have broke the back of my ride and completely taken my foot off the gas. Admittedly I still have a few hours of riding left to do, but I have sufficient time and few plans in the next two months. Job Done. Right?

Much of the ride was around industrial estate. So on a saturday it's a little creepy ............I tried not to think why all the people I saw were hanging around there in skimpy outfits.

I got brave getting this close to a Seagull!

One thing I did see lots of is murals. It brightens up the area, but there's no disguising an industrial estate! A selection of murals shown below

Funny Story

A few months ago I popped into a hardware store to ask if they sold foam for a cushion.

After telling me they had no foam, the shop attendant replied 'why don't you try the foam shop'. I was stunned by the abruptness and uncanadianess of this shop attendant and left the shop immediately ......and then months later I found this!

My bad.

My Bad

Points of Interest.....

The Poetree (48.440708, -123.358215)

I've seen hundreds of little library boxes throughout Victoria, all unique in their own way. But this is the only Poetry box I've seen in my travels!

A place to share and read the poetry of others.

Poetree

Shark Wall (48.436583, -123.369084)

Just a wall......WITH A SHED LOAD OF SHARKS ON IT!!!

We're gonna need a bigger wall

Comments

How many roads are there in Victoria?

So, before getting started, I'm going to make a guess of what I've taken on. The challenge is to cover every road in Victoria, I've taken 'Victoria' to mean Victoria and the surrounding areas / districts. So the municipality 'City of Victoria' has a total of 258km . Unfortunately, I've made my life difficult and included Esquimalt, Oak Bay and some of Saanich! Just a finger in the air here, but it looks like Victoria covers 1/4 of my area, so I'm looking at just over 1,000km. On one of these: Jeepers

Biggest News in Saanich Right Now?

So I think I've had my 15 minutes of fame. Man, it was quick. I was interviewed by the local paper............. and I was FRONT PAGE news!!!! That's right, Victoria on a Bike was the biggest news in Saanich . (We don't need to mention that this week's biggest news in Saanich was 20 people going on a 5km bike ride!*). Front Page The madness didn't stop there. Next I received a call from CBC Radio and asked to be a guest on the All Points West radio show. This is the only evidence I can offer that I was on the radio! What's next you ask? Well after all the attention my website had 60 hits (out of a metropolitan population of >300,000), so I guess nothing is next and things will carry on as normal! * Incase you doubted me

Ride 46 - Press in Tow

Ride 46 - 1 December 2019 Distance 33.9km (Distance to date 1,485.4 km) Time 2hrs 43mins (Time to date 114hrs 7mins) I was joined on this ride by a journalist from the Times Colonist !! Got to start somewhere Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of me and Roxanne exploring the east side of James Bay together, but I do have proof for the doubters........... https://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/meet-the-cyclist-who-rode-every-victoria-street-often-twice-1.24039234 The stuff of nightmares Sadly the exploring was surprisingly bland, so not much to report. I was expecting this area to be a little treasure trove. Maybe I was just chatting too much Not as comfortable as it looks Points of Interest..... No points of interest

Victoria on a Bike

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