by Arie Hoogerbrugge | May 27, 2020 | 2019-2021 Bike Ride
Clarke is a news man from Yourtv North Bay. Steve Featherstone invited Clarke out to the reptile camp when I was visiting Steve to do news clip for that evening.
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | May 26, 2020 | 2019-2021 Bike Ride
Steve runs Reptile Adventure Camp in Bonfield. Steve is one of the very people that I know who has consistently from the day I met him has impressed me. I wrote a blog post on Reptile Adventure Camp that can be found HERE I got to play with a few of his...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | May 22, 2020 | 2019-2021 Bike Ride
I met Julian at the picnic area of Dorset. Julian was with his dad and they saw my bike and stopped to talk. Julian is 17 and just recently purchased a MEC National bike just like mine and plans to bike from Toronto to Vancouver this summer. I am totally impressed...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | May 22, 2020 | 2019-2021 Bike Ride
Russ lives a little south east of Minden Ontario and reached out to me the day I announced that I was back on the road. Thanks to Russ I was able to a shower, a hot meal and a laundry done. Arriving at Russ’s home was amazing as it helped validate my decision to head...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | May 20, 2020 | 2019-2021 Bike Ride
John was a co-worker/driver at Voortman Cookies where I worked until I started on this bike ride. John had called me a few days earlier on my birthday. Quickly in the conversation we realized that there was the slightest chance of crossing paths. How crazy that it...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | May 19, 2020 | 2019-2021 Bike Ride
Arriving in Kingston March 19 to visit my aunt Henny on my way through seemed like it should have been fairly uneventful visit. Little did I know this visit would be on the eve of the escalation of the Covid-19 pandemic. My planned 3 day visit turned into a 2 month...
