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RIDE TO THE END OF THE ROAD J O S E P H MCLEAN
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It was Kevin's idea. At the farthest place we had
we'd have to get on a boat. But it's too far, and you're
ever biked from home, he looked wistfully at the high-
probably too little to bike there yet."
way heading south, rising over the hill at Lang Bay, leaving everything we had ever known. And he asked me, "where's the farthest place this road goes?"
Well, that settled it. Planning for Proving Daddy Wrong About Biking began at once, and just two weeks later we set out at the crack of afternoon for Saltery Bay. Our
Some years, that answer is 15,000 kilometres away on
expedition had grown to three: Ryan (almost 10), Kev-
the Chilean coast, the southern terminus of highway
in (newly seven), and Daddy (pretty old but still pretty
101. But Covid has readjusted our goalposts, if just for
good). One time, in the misty days before children, I
now. In a way, it is like when the children were very
had biked to Saltery Bay. I carefully adjusted expecta-
small, with each trip to the nearest hill a dramatic and
tions, but they were determined. And so we went.
fully involved adventure. Now their world is growing, and although the world is full of hazards and borders, there is still so much open space right here.
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winding hills, narrow passes, occasional maniac drivers. There is a wide shoulder that sometimes is as thin as
"The farthest place," I said, "is Saltery Bay. Any more and
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The highway out of town has its ups and downs. Long
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