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BBR25 is my 7th ride that for which I have raised funds. Due to my passport error, it is my 6th actual ride with the team in Europe. I did ride in 2024, but I was in Quebec & Ontario not Normandy. It was really good to be back with all my BBR friends visiting
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There will be special honours to Private Arthur Vanance, of Kenora Ontario. “The grave of a Canadian soldier who went missing in the Netherlands during the Second World War has been identified as that of Private Arthur Vanance, according to the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces.” “Second World War Soldier Identified as
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Well this year didn’t go quite as planned. Fundraising and training went really well, but I overlooked the timelines for renewing my passport. All the team members were all heading the airport to go to France. I was ready and standing at the check-in line. My bike neatly stowed in my bike bag. Elsie waiting
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The time in Sicily is one of the best vacations of my adult life. So many adventures getting from Rome to Catania, to Messina to Ortona. And the start of my 5th BBR ride. Like all the rides, it would be approximately 500km over 6 days. But Italy has unrelenting hills and flat bike trails
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I have come full circle and in doing so, I must go to Sicily to visit the grave of Capt. George Whitelaw and the place of my Grandad’s nightmare. Before the ride, my friends Ray & Mark chose to accompany me on this final quest to know Grandad better. As a child I wanted a
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We’re back, COVID knocked us down, taught us a lot of lessons, but it did not destroy the will to help our Veterans, First Responders and their families who live with PTSD. The programs changes for a bit, but new ones grew out of the need for adaptation. It is so good to see my
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Sorry COVID19 postponed this ride until 2025. The team at Wounded Warriors and Magic Places hoped that the 2020 ride would be possible. We held our breath and waited. Some of us, brimming with optimism had booked our flights. We have the jersey, we will wear it with pride in 2025.
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“Wait! You missed a year”. For a variety of reasons I did not go to BBR2018. I had some emotional struggles with Wounded Warriors in 2019. The organization had decided to included Police, Fire and Ambulance in their core programs. As the former wife of a Police Officer, I was angry at the Police. I
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I had only ever intended to do the Italy ride. Funny how life has a way changing your plans. When they announced BBR2017, I knew I was going to France. As a teen I was exposed to Robert Services’ poetry, “Rhymes of a Red Cross Man”. I was moved so completely by his poetry that
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There are thing in life that make me go, “Hmmmm”. One of these was September 2015, when I received an email from a charity that I never heard about. Wounded Warriors was going to Italy. They were retracing, by bicycle, the path my Grandad took in WWII. Italy was not a country that was ever
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