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Enough is Enough: The Ride
My wife Ginny and I were pondering where to go next. Since our beautiful boy Kelty took his life 13 years ago suffering from major depression, we were at a standstill. The Kelty Patrick Dennehy...
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Cross Canada Fitness
Ginny and I have trained hard for this trip. Of course there can never be enough training, but in our case so many have given to the cause and to our foundation that we both spend a lot of time...
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The Route
When we started planning for our Cross Canada Ride for Mental Health called Enough is Enough, we thought we’d travel from East to West ie Cape Spear Newfoundland to Whistler, BC. Our executive...
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The Enough is Enough Launch Party
Our kickoff was a super success, not only providing our guests with some rockin’ dancing music courtesy of Fabulous George and The Zodiacs, but raising more than $36,000 for the cause. The West meets...
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The Enough is Enough Ride: Giddy Up Fraser Canyon
We surprised ourselves by sleeping 10 hours solid (duh,we’re oldies), but took off towards the driest place in Canada: Lytton, BC, home of the California big horn sheep, rock doves, eagles and diamond...
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Canoodling up to Kamloops
Broke camp with an ‘Auf Wiedersehen’ to our Frankfurt campmates who enjoyed pork steaks and their Canadian Club the night before. Gin took off with a new fortitude reinforced by her night-before tune...
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Just Ducky
We broke camp with Quinn and Keenan wanting to join us on a bike. Good thing we had brought a third bike because it was fun to have their company and have someone to yak to as we rolled down the...
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Revved up for Revelstoke
Our Salmon Arm friends, the Caves, left us with a belly full of Road Island Red farm fresh eggs and coffee. The duckling we found a home for with a woman down the road who took care of all sorts of...
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The Enough is Enough Ride: Climbing Through the Big Rocks
We set off from our Revelstoke campground fueled by some of the best banana pancakes man has ever eaten. Our crew dawg Quinn proved another skill as a short order cook, whipping them up and cleaning it...
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Day 12: Passing the 1000 km mark, a 21st birthday and an old friend welcomes us
We left our campground in beautiful Field this am, having spread a titch of karma. The resident gophers were wild about the handful of peanuts tossed in their direction. The other involved Red Green....
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The Enough is Enough Ride – Day 15: Under promise, over perform.
We go as the weather goes, so we as we break camp on Day 15′s sunny morning. We are feeling friskier than our 85km goal to Beaver Dam Provincial Park Playground and begin to size up our endurance for...
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Day 16: Day off in Rocky Mountain House
From all appearances it’s a fine clean little town (population 8000). We are settled in a nice campground, but not as settled as some who stay for several months. Seems that welders, pipe fitters and...
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Enough is Enough – Day 18: Riding the Big Caterpillar to Olds
Imagine a 139km caterpillar, big slow rolling hills, climbing 100 meters, then descending 100 meters into a valley usually with a creek meandering through, sometimes not. Throw in a good driving...
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The Enough is Enough Ride – Day 20: Modern Day Spartans
When Spartan Controls CEO Mike Begin asked why we weren’t coming through Calgary, I told him that we didn’t really have anything going on there. He almost turned Calgary upside down to change that. As...
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The Enough is Enough Ride – Day 21: We hit the rolling plains
Mike Begin has arranged a pancake breakfast send off at Spartan HQ. Picnic tables set up in the parking lot, and many employees and family present on a bright Saturday morning. They are again so...
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The Enough is Enough Ride – Day 22: The Heart of Wild Rose Country
I learned something about horses yesterday. I thought they were dumb. When we pulled into the Bassano Campground (hey just a minute, did I tell you that as we were looking for the campground a Jeep...
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Day 23: Wild Rosé Country gives way to Big Sky Country
We leave our beautiful Medicine Hat campground, tucked away in a valley on a lovely little golf course. This is home to the most glorious bird in the west, the ring necked pheasant. Our departure is...
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The Enough is Enough Ride – Day 24: Cruising Through Ancient Glacial Plains
Aahhhhhaa, we wake to blue skies and a welcoming sun, a couple of Baltimore orioles feeling on the bright yellow flowers of a caragana hedge filling our windshield. Greg Norman says, “Happiness is a...
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The Enough is Enough Ride – Day 27: A Day Off in the Queen City
Before the Provinces in the west were formed, the whole area was known as the Northwest Territories. In 1882, Regina was founded, originally called “Pile of Bones” because of the buildup of buffalo...
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The Enough is Enough Ride – Day 28: A Cordial Reception in Wolseley
We started off the day with no antiseptic. Steady rain and driving Easterlies greeted us and there was nothing to do but do up our chinstraps and clamp down on the stick in our teeth. Nowhere to run,...
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