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Very true! My travel Visa covers me pretty decent for emergency medical, but not everyone's card does.

Riding in the US may hurt from a currency exchange standpoint, but the gas is cheaper, the motels are cheaper and the food can be cheaper depending on where you eat. Over the last 5yrs, my trips across Quebec or over to BC cost a bit more per day than my trips down south riding to and from the...

That road is the road through La Maurice National Parc. It’s $10 to go into the park and it’s an amazing road. The speed limit is slow and there can be a lot of visitors to the park, but I’ve always managed to enjoy myself on it. The roads leading to and from the park are also really good...

At the bottom of the first post in that thread, I also have a bunch of ride reports, from many trips that are around a week in length. Have a look around and any questions - just ask:) From the GTA, a one week round trip on a Ninja 1000 will take you to a host of amazing locations. I'd suggest...

Eat it then: Common blue violet (Viola sororia): how to forage :)

It's gout weed and highly invasive. It prefers partially shady areas and spreads very aggressively from it's underground system (rhizomes). If you have it in a garden with other plants, it will always be there, despite your pulling of the roots, since you won't be able to get them all from the...

Burlap decomposes yes, but wire baskets no. I was always taught to remove the wire baskets. One company I worked for would fold down the sides of the wire so that the upper half of the basket was exposed. The thought was that since the majority of the roots are in the upper 18” of soil, this...

At least the roads are windy enough on a route like this that we are moving around on our seats and changing body positions a fair bit. Even still, but the end of the day - we're gonna be pretty wiped.

Thanks @Lightcycle ! Just picked up a pair of these grips now. On my last ride I was thinking my grips feel very hard on my outer hands and I should either try different grips or swap out to a different bar like a Pro-Taper. Will try the grips first.

Thanks for the tip and sounds good - hope to know the exact date the week before the ride happens.

Annual Bluegrass is pretty easy to identify compared to the others. It has pretty narrow blades and produces a fair bit of seed at low heights. The leaf tips have a slight boat shape to them like the tip of a canoe. The cool thing about how some of these plants adapt to mowing is that they will...

Next week I'm riding up to Buckhorn to drop my forks and shock off for servicing at Accelerated Technologies. Going on Wednesday (most likely) or Friday, depending on the weather and which day is better for me to take off work. They open at 9am, so I will try to be there close to that and then...

Anytime. It's amazing how much of this stuff I've forgotten until I read it again.

Nice - there's some pretty sweet Lindens. So do you know the botanical (Latin) name for it then?

What type of grass seed did you put down and where did you get it? If you have never done a soil sedimentation test, that's a cool thing to show your young kids. Something like the attached pdf, but I prefer to wait longer than 24 hours for the clay to settle, since those particles are so fine...

Just so I have this right... You are digging up a neighbours tree and planting it at the cottage, but you don't know what type of tree it is? :)

The attached file which I put together in a past life has a bunch of common turf weeds. Page 14 can help you better identify if it is crabgrass.

That was my experience of the northern section of the 129 too - very straight and tall trees on the sides ,so not much of a view either. That trading post store was just north of the 554 intersection here: Tunnel Lake Trading Post & Motel · 6274 ON-129, Thessalon, ON P0R 1L0

Not sure I would want to do this on a naked bike. This will be an intense day and that wind will be really tiring after 10-12 hours. You have a small windscreen for that thing?

That's correct. The section between Thessalon and Aubrey Falls is the best. From Aubrey Falls to Chapleau, I had a tough time staying awake. To the OP, if you have the time, go further than Thunder Bay and ride over to Fort Frances and up towards Kenora. Then over to Dryden and down to Atikokan...