Moose Jaw Times-Herald: To there and back again

Two cyclists from England make a detour to Moose Jaw

Tom Passmore and Sophie Walker, who are from
England and are blogging about their adventures
on their blog, Detour to Moose Jaw, pose with
Mayor Deb Higgins outside of Moose Jaw city hall.
Lisa Goudy/Times-Herald    

By Lisa Goudy

Paw prints surrounded the area where Tom Passmore and Sophie Walker decided to set up camp.

"We'd ruled out that they were bears because we looked at bear prints a lot," said Walker.

So the pair - who run a blog called Detour to Moose Jaw - decided to camp overnight at that spot anyway. Later, they figured out what animal was responsible for those prints.

"We found some wildlife books and we discovered, 'Oh yeah, it was cougar. Brilliant,'" said Passmore.

Passmore and Walker have more than a few tales to tell of their journey so far since flying from England and arriving in Oakland in San Francisco on Feb. 27.

And they've been travelling on bicycles the entire time.

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