I have a few extra weeks of vacation this year and am contemplating interesting destinations. I would like to go north, and I mean....really north, but the reality is in Ontario once you get north of the Highway 11 corridor there's not much in the way or roads.
Northern Quebec is interesting, there's access by road to places as far north as the eastern shore of James Bay - Chisasibi for example, or Radison. And the road is paved all the way. Not perfect, but paved.
I don't care too much about cell service (I'd probably bring along a satellite distress beacon, I have access to them via my pilot friends), I don't care much about the lack of fuel services (with an aux fuel jerry can I can easily reach the 700-750 kilometer range point without needing fuel), but I do like the idea of adventure, and being engrossed in a completely different culture. Chisasibi for example is mostly Cree. Camping is status quo, no problem there for me. Distances are irrelevant, I can do 700-1000K days on my bike in comfort.
Just thought I'd post up and see if anyone has ever done any particularly "exotic" destinations. Ontario and Quebec are really the only options for me (would like to keep it to within a week) and my bike of course is not suitable for long stretches of gravel, so the term "exotic" may not be particularly appropriate most of the truly exotic places aren't at the end of a paved road... but there are exceptions such as the northern Quebec options I mentioned above.
Northern Quebec is interesting, there's access by road to places as far north as the eastern shore of James Bay - Chisasibi for example, or Radison. And the road is paved all the way. Not perfect, but paved.
I don't care too much about cell service (I'd probably bring along a satellite distress beacon, I have access to them via my pilot friends), I don't care much about the lack of fuel services (with an aux fuel jerry can I can easily reach the 700-750 kilometer range point without needing fuel), but I do like the idea of adventure, and being engrossed in a completely different culture. Chisasibi for example is mostly Cree. Camping is status quo, no problem there for me. Distances are irrelevant, I can do 700-1000K days on my bike in comfort.
Just thought I'd post up and see if anyone has ever done any particularly "exotic" destinations. Ontario and Quebec are really the only options for me (would like to keep it to within a week) and my bike of course is not suitable for long stretches of gravel, so the term "exotic" may not be particularly appropriate most of the truly exotic places aren't at the end of a paved road... but there are exceptions such as the northern Quebec options I mentioned above.