I did not learn to ride a bike until I was 12. I think it was a combination of not being able to afford one and being a fearful little girl. However, once I did learn, I cycled a lot while I was a teenager; it was my main mode of transportation to part-time jobs. In the early years of adulthood and motherhood, I also rode my bike a lot: getting to work, riding with my children, and sometimes as a break from them. Many years passed, and then recently I have started riding again, although not nearly as often as I would like. I’m really going to make an effort to start doing it more regularly. Below are some of the places where Cris and I have enjoyed cycling, now and in the past.
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I have been an Edmonton Oilers fan since I started liking hockey, back in 1983. I watched the team lose 4 games straight to the New York Islanders in the Stanley Cup Final and have been a fan ever since. I’m Toronto born and it’s not that I disliked the Toronto Maple Leafs, it’s just that they were abysmal for most of the 1980’s. And the ’80’s was when I became a sports fanatic.
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