After Clive Granger’s oldest son Bryce headed to Halifax for love, Clive contemplated retirement. When he was positive he wanted to pull the plug on his electrical career he thought why not cycle across the country to visit Bryce and wife Breanna before they returned to B.C. for good? After all, he enjoyed his week-long bike excursions every autumn as well as cycling around Williams Lake and out at Rose Lake where the family cottage is located.
Second son Brody, an experienced bike tourer, wanted to tag along. Sure, said Dad, but get your engineering degree from UBC first. Clive’s older bro Grant heard about the grand plan and asked to tag along. Well the retirement is on and the degree looks to be in the bag, so the trio are set to head out May 1 – Clive from Williams Lake and Brody and Grant from Burnaby. Uncle and nephew will be doing a trial run to Vancouver Island and the Sunshine Coast the week before the cross-country caravan sets forth.
Grant thought it would be a good idea to keep family and friends up-to-date along the way by doing a blog. As well as being an engineer-in-the-making, Brody is an accordion player. That instrument is a bit on the heavy side so no way was he taking one of those. But he got a concertina as a gift so it’s going into the big bag on the back of the recumbent bike he plans on riding on the trip and he’ll make music along the way. Grant’s former incarnation as a warped tabloid headline writer – where the motto was “when in doubt alliterate” – inspired him to create a kooky moniker for the blog: Clan of Clive’s Cross-Canada Cycling and Concertina Caravan. That’s a hefty handle so it will be called The 7Cs for short.
Enjoy your summer everyone. We certainly intend to make it one we’ll never forget!
The 7 Cs blog 