Sometime at the end of 2023, Chad started planning some possible routes for a group bike tour. In the late winter of 2024, people started to agree on a possible weekend as well as the tour that we would do. We landed on a four-day Kawartha bike tour that touched several rail trails, starting in Barrie to Orillia, then to Lindsay, and finally ending in Whitby.

In this post, I write about our most recent trip to Algonquin. As my pal Jeff put it:

There will be bugs, there will be rain, there will be blood, but most imp…