Author: Scott Bentley

  • Goodbye Canada

    Goodbye Canada

    We woke to a great weather day at our North Bay campsite.  Scott had noticed a bike trail as we got close to the campsite, so we googled their bike trails and decided to go for a ride of about 10 miles.  Then we hit the road for Chipman, NY, where we will stay a…

  • Canadian Colors by Air

    Canadian Colors by Air

    We had a long but very fun day. As we drove East from Sault Ste. Marie on the Trans-Canada, Tom reminded Scott that we were going to look into a Seaplane ride.  Using google search and google maps, Scott found True North Airways about 3 hours into our 5 hour planned drive to Fairview Park…

  • Floating, Flying and Creepy Crawly “Things”

    Floating, Flying and Creepy Crawly “Things”

    Today was our day to stay in Sault Ste. Marie and do tourist stuff, including the boat ride we scheduled yesterday.  There are three tour companies – we rode the smaller-but-tries-harder option – Miss Marie Sault Lock Tour and it was excellent.  Drove Polo to the dock loaded with our eBikes, and got in the…

  • Welcome to Canada

    Welcome to Canada

    We awoke for one last breakfast at the Phillips Resort, then said goodbye and hit the road for a trip along trail we had taken Monday along the banks of Lake Superior, but continuing into Canada at Thunder Bay. Our first stop was for lunch – we picked a wayside (Minnesotan for rest stop) that…

  • Superior Shoreline Sights

    Superior Shoreline Sights

    Today was a sightseeing day for us – while Dave suggested another bike ride, that was not in the cards for the OWGs.  After breakfast Dave drove us up the northwestern shore of Lake Superior. First stop was Hawk Ridge, which provided spectacular panoramas of the lake and sky. The next stop was Gooseberry Falls…

  • e-Bike Range Anxiety

    e-Bike Range Anxiety

    Today was a full day with new experiences and lessons learned. After breakfast, Tom, Dave, and Scott left for a bike ride.  Dave proposed a 28 mile round trip, which at least Scott thought would never happen – one of the most ambitious rides for our Chinese folding ebikes – two Lectrics, and one VeeGo.…

  • Bikes and Boats

    Bikes and Boats

    Today was fun all around.  After breakfast with the Phillips, Tom and Scott left for a bike ride along the shorefront in Duluth.  The inline-skating and roller-skiing marathon was going on in downtown Duluth, with many roads closed for the world’s largest in-line skating marathon.  Our bike path paralleled much of the race, so we…

  • William A Irvin

    William A Irvin

    The day started out well – particularly for Scott who got to enjoy the Phillips’ excellent hot tub. After breakfast of eggs and hash browns cooked by Dave (with store-bought eggs rather than those from the Phillips’ chickens,) Dave, Tom, and Scott headed in Khan and Polo for our appointment with the RV service guy.…

  • Limping Along

    Limping Along

    We awoke to beautiful weather in County Line campground, where Tom was able to capture a great picture of the sunrise. While our destination was Duluth, Minnesota, Tom has been in all 50 states, except North Dakota. Being so close we decided to clip the Southeast corner on our way to Duluth, qualifying him for…

  • Can it Get any Worse

    Can it Get any Worse

    The day started out well, but went downhill rapidly after lunch. We departed Moon Lake fairly early for another drive on dirt roads until we hit the paved two-lanes.  Tom says it felt like we crossed half of Nebraska on dirt roads (in reality it was about 40 miles out of 200 North to South). …

  • Just Like We Left Them

    Just Like We Left Them

    After breakfast and an interesting Uber rider with the former managing editor of the Denver Post in his Tesla Model Y, we arrived at Mountain View RV storage.  We remembered our gate code, and our Uber driver drove us right up to Khan.  No apparent problems – a few tumbleweeds lodged under Khan and Polo,…

  • Comedy of Errors

    Comedy of Errors

    Sunday was a travel day – we planned to drop Khan and Polo at an RV storage site where we had made a reservation weeks ago – 25 minutes from the Denver airport and a half hour or so drive from our Longmont AirBnB.  What could go wrong? We left the AirBnB on schedule around…