by alex | Sep 10, 2020 | John's Blog
Day # 114 – September 10th, 1995 We set out from Belleville and continued heading east on Highway 2. It’s a Sunday morning and like most Sunday’s – it’s pretty quiet along the road when we are in the country. Today, it’s also very windy and cold. I can tell that Jesse...
by alex | Sep 9, 2020 | John's Blog
Day # 113 – September 9th, 1995 One more time we are up early to head to our start point east of Trenton and heading to Belleville. John Lees from TV London, who I went to high school with at WCI in Woodstock is back with his daughters. John and his daughters Alene...
by alex | Sep 8, 2020 | John's Blog
Day # 112 – September 8th, 1995 (Ed’s note: Normally this is the day school would have started in Ontario. Counting the time it took us to drive from London to Kenora and then another 53 kilometres to the Ontario-Manitoba border, this is the 116th day that Jesse has...
by alex | Sep 7, 2020 | John's Blog
Day # 111 – September 7th, 1995 (Ed’s note: As I mentioned yesterday, today, September 7, 2020 is World Duchenne Awareness Day (W-DAD.) There are a lot of places in Canada that are being lit up in red tonight. Places like BC Place in Vancouver, and the tower in...
by alex | Sep 6, 2020 | John's Blog
Day # 110 – September 6th, 1995 (Ed’s note: At the time I am writing this (Sunday, September 6th, 2020) we are at the eve of World Duchenne Day. This is a day that did not exist on the calendar when I was pushing Jesse across Ontario in 1995. Tonight and tomorrow,...
by alex | Sep 5, 2020 | John's Blog
Day # 109 – September 5th, 1995 Today is the first day of school and as we head back out to the road for another day, my thoughts are back in London. Sometimes I think I have asked too much of Jesse, and too much of his brothers Tyler and Tim. I’ll have to make it up...
by alex | Sep 4, 2020 | John's Blog
(Ed’s Note: If you are enjoying reading these reflections on the early days of Jesse’s Journey and you are on Facebook, as part of the Journey ‘family,’ I’d like to ask a favour. If you could press the share button on your Facebook page, your friends and a lot of...
by alex | Sep 3, 2020 | John's Blog
The good news today is that we don’t have to change motels, although we had a long drive from Oshawa to get to Niagara Falls. When we arrive at our start point and meet the police, we are also overloaded with volunteers. I pushed Jesse through Niagara Falls and at...
by alex | Sep 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
Day # 106 –September 2nd, 1995 This is another of those days where we are up very early. There is going to be a lot of shuffling around today as the route plan has us driving from Oshawa back to Dundas so that we can take in Hamilton and St. Catharines on a Saturday...
by alex | Sep 1, 2020 | John's Blog
(Ed’s note: With the start of school approaching here in Ontario, over the next few days I am going to add some thoughts about school kids and what they are capable of accomplishing. Perhaps you might want to share some of these stories with the young people in your...
