In Tandem: A Sea to Sea Cycling Odyssey.
Peter Slofstra

5.25 x 8 - 400 Pages

This books is a “must-read” for anyone who wants to know what it is really like to live “in tandem” with a significant other, with a community of fellow adventurers, and with God, regardless of the direction of the wind or the strength of your wrists.

For a society and a generation disillusioned by a church that often seems boring, irrelevant and self-serving, Peter’s candid and moving story told from the perspective of the tour’s only tandem team restores the hope that the Christian life can be an extreme adventure. Cyclists and non-cyclists alike will be entertained, challenged and deeply affected by this adventure narrative that manages to inform and inspire without ever becoming only a travelogue, training manual or religious treatise.

Peter Slofstra is the pastor of Hope Fellowship Church in Courtice, Ontario, a community minded Christian Reformed Church that encourages and celebrates physical, relational and spiritual fitness. He has been married to Marja for thirty-eight years. They have two married daughters and three granddaughters.


"Oh my, this book is phenomenal. I stayed up way too late last night reading."
Jane Brouwer
Sea to Sea 2008 Steering Committee Member

"The story is exciting from the adventure point of view and uplifting from a spiritual point of view. It's an honest account and sensitively written."

Bert Witvoet
Former Christian Courier editor

"At one point my husband caught me, book in hand, walking to the kitchen to plug in the kettle, still reading. He observed, "You know, you could put it down, just for a minute." But I couldn't.
Bettie Kloet
Sea to Sea 2005 Planning Team Member

“I ...encourage all riders for the 2008 tour to get their own copy, if you don't already have one. This book provides a marvelous sneak peak at our summer adventure, what to be prepared for and key essentials for the trip. I found it both exhilarating and an eye opener (wondering what I had gotten myself into). It is well-written and a delightful read.”
Sharon Payton


Divide the country into three stages: Pacific, Central and Atlantic. Add in 156 ordinary cyclists, ages 18-74, ninety-four of them crazy enough to cycle more than 7,000 kilometres. Multiply by 72 days of community dynamics and constantly varying terrain and weather. Subtract every doubt and dismissive thought that makes most people say No when they should risk a Yes. Mix in a wrist broken in training that caused the author and his wife to exchange their road bikes for the tour’s only tandem bicycle. And you have 2005’s Sea to Sea with the CRC, the largest vehicle supported bicycle tour that has ever crossed Canada, vividly described in this book by Peter Slofstra, one of the tour’s organizers, chaplains and cyclists.

$5.00 from each book sold will be contributed to "Ending the Cycle of Poverty".

*** shortlisted finalist in the "Independently Published Non-Fiction" category of the Word Guild Canadian Christian Writing Awards !