Get to know the expedition team members as they join our team.

Kirk Vaillant

Kirk is the newest member of the expedition team and a bit of a mystery to us.

Isabel Shannon

Isabel only recently has taken to cycling but has taken to it like a duck to water. This is Isabel's first bicycle adventure. She is married to fellow expedition Member, Greg Shannon and has two grown children. Isabel works for the government of Canada making sure that we all pay our fair share.

Greg Shannon

I am 49 years young. Born and raised in Surrey I have 2 grown children Alex (23) and Paige (20). In addition to cycling I’m a reasonably competent sailor, good cook, fair bartender and have recently discovered the joys of snowboarding and downhill mountain biking (the chair lifts take you up and you coast downhill at great speed, not exactly training for this ride). I’m also a Boler trailer enthusiast and have travelled a bit in an almost restored 1973 13 foot. Always on the prowl for a good bar with a great band, As gainful employment I work for Shippers Supply Inc in Delta, where I’m the branch manager. We are a manufacturer and distributor of packaging, storage, logistics and warehouse solutions. As a second career I’m always looking forward to being a sailing bum. This is second cycling trip of any great distance.

Roger Hallingham

Roger is 50ish and his day job has him gainfully employed at WestJet airlines fixing jets.
On his days off, Roger is either renovating the house or very slowly finishing a 1932 Ford roadster that he has been working on forever it seems.

He has been with Sherry in a wonderful relationship for the past 3 years and they enjoy vacationing in the Carribean and summer camping expeditions in a Boler trailer.

This is Rogers 3rd. bicycle adventure.

Barry Byer

Barry is 46 years old, married 18 years with two kids aged 7 (boy) and 10 (girl).
Barry works for WestJet and has been there almost 11 years.

This is Barry's 2nd bike trip and he is very excited to be going!

Kerry Vanderzalm

Kerry Vanderzalm is 49 years old and has been married forever. He has three adult sons. Kerry enjoys the tropics, traveling, bike riding, boating, SCUBA diving, good food, good booze, good friends and open air bars.

Kerry is a partner in Art Knapp Plantland nursery and garden center in Surrey, BC
This is Kerry's 5th adventure bike expedition.

The expedition

The Expedition (last updated April 2nd, 2010)

This is a new trip... Guatemala is out and Cuba is in.

Below is the rough itinerary of our expedition which is sure to morph and evolve as the departure date draws near. As our adventures usually go it is sure to have some unexpected twists and turns as we travel down the roads.

You can view our previous treks at bikingtobelize09.blogspot.com and bikingtobelize08.blogspot.com

We will probably fly into Holguin, Cuba and ride to Havana and then to Varadero to fly home...

More details to follow.