While many cyclists might dream of tackling the winding roads of Europe, Victor Emerson set his sights on a different kind of challenge this summer — one that kept him planted in his hometown of Ottawa.
Instead of his usual bike trip across Europe, Emerson decided to embark on a more local quest and travel to all 33 branches of the city’s public library system.
“We decided not to go during an Olympic year because of airfares, hotel bookings, all that sort of stuff. But normally, if we did go to Europe, we’d go for a couple of weeks, and we would do about 700 or 800 kilometres,” Emerson said on CBC Radio’s All In A Day last week.
“This year, I …