Phil Norton: My Stupid Bicycle Thing: Bicycle Camping 90 days from Canada to Mexico

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This is a twin story - the personal story about an adventure travel expedition, pedaling on the road and sleeping in the woods as he traveled from Canada to Mexico on bicycle, combined with the geography and meeting the people along the way. As he explains, "This is a repeat of my 1979-1980 bicycle camping travels from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. At that time at age 22, out in the world before computers and the Internet connectedness, I had ambitions of working as a photojournalist. Then, following my lifelong career in the media, I set off again in 2021 at age 63, with a smart phone connecting me to the world at every moment."

Norton has lived in Picton since 2007 leading photography group trips throughout North America and working on County books. Before that, he owned an apple orchard and maple syrup farm in Quebec near the border of New York State and ran a youth journalism program in 2 English high schools. As film photography transitioned to digital, he worked at The Montreal Gazette shooting photo assignments and running the sales department of the photo archives where they also published 3 books.