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It was a sunny and gorgeous day in the St. John’s area today. It may sound funny, but I truly feel as though we’re in Newfoundland now. Our route took us through picturesque Petty Harbour – a lovely little fishing community. Chris Wright ran alongside me for a good part of the ride.

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Today started in-studio at 7:15 am when listeners in St. John’s joined host Jeff Gilhooly and I on CBC Radio’s morning show. Afterwards, the team met up with Chris Wright and went to Holy Heart High School, where Principal David Cooper and the student council had invited us to speak about Cycle to Walk and polio. Over 1,000 students were in attendance. A walk around the block with the entire student body followed the presentation, and I was asked to lead the group on my hand cycle. Thank you so much to all of the students and staff at Holy Heart for your enthusiastic response to Cycle to Walk. I hope to see many of you at City Hall on October 1st at 1:30.

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The sun shone brightly, the westerly winds howled, and the hills wouldn’t stop – Today was the last big hand cycling day of Cycle to Walk’s journey across Canada. I can’t believe it’s been 165 days since the journey began on the West Coast. As the team continued into the city, we were so happy to see Valerie Royle, Vice-President of the Cycle to Walk Society. Val flew in from Whitehorse to visit family and to assist with our wrap-up at Cape Spear and in St. John’s.  After our short roadside reunion with Val, we continued up the hills. As of this evening, it’s official: we’re in St. John’s, NL!

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What a treat it was to arrive at Whitbourne Elementary this morning and to have all the students and staff greeting the team as we rolled in front of the school. Students cheered and showed a welcome poster that they had all signed for us. After the extremely warm welcome, everyone cheered us into the gym prior to a presentation about coming together as a global community to get rid of polio once and for all and assisting polio survivors who need rehabilitation and support.

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“How many people know what polio is?” When I asked that question today, not one student put up their hand.

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Who’s excited to wake up at 4:00am? The Cycle to Walk en-route team is!! We were on the road to the ferry terminal at 5:00 am today so we’d be on board for a 7:00 departure. The voyage from North Sydney to Argentia is going to take about 19 hours, and we’d like to send out a great big thank you to Marine Atlantic for providing a discount on our fares, and for allowing us to sell t-shirts, take donations and share the message to passengers aboard the MV Joseph and Clara Smallwood!

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