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Day 62 – Vancouver! The home straight… 15 Jul 2010 | 04:09 pm
After a late night last night we take a while to leave the motel and then get very lost on highway 1 as it repeatedly lets you on and then orders you off as cyclists. We take a ridiculous detour, hea...
Day 61 – Fun road and highway shenanigans; Déjà vu Montreal? 14 Jul 2010 | 03:53 pm
Freezing cold this morning, so we get the handwarmers out and jam them into shoes, gloves and sleeves whilst eating porridge in an attempt to warm up. Luckily the sun starts to creep into the campsit...
Day 60 – Heading to Allison Pass, and an accidental mountain. 13 Jul 2010 | 02:59 pm
It was uphill straight out of Princeton, but not too steep a climb and we are getting used to it anyway! Not too hot this morning either but as the uphill carried on for 40km or so we were beginning ...
Day 59 – Trisha on TV, crisps for breakfast and hiding in a campground bathroom 12 Jul 2010 | 02:38 pm
Well we found out why the Anarchist is so-named. A chap called Richard G. Sidley lived in the area in the late 1800s and, known for his unusual political stance was called the Anarchist, with the nam...
Day 58 – Conquering the Anarchist and plummeting into Osoyoos 11 Jul 2010 | 02:14 pm
After a fitful sleep with terrible karaoke and unbearable heat we leave the hotel super early in an attempt to delay the onset of profuse sweating. By 8.20 we are halfway up another mountain and have...
Day 57 – Rocking out at Rock Creek in the shadow of the Anarchist 10 Jul 2010 | 01:52 pm
After descending so far from Paulson summit yesterday we then had to climb back up to Eholt summit which stands at 1028m. Expecting a long hard slog Leigh didn’t quite believe Tom when he said he cou...
Day 56 – It’s 38 degrees and we have a mountain to cycle up 9 Jul 2010 | 01:27 pm
Out of the motel by 8am, not the early start we were hoping for and already the heat is pretty punishing. Straight up a hill and then it just gets steeper and steeper for mile after mile. Had to sto...
Day 55 – Back to Nelson, with a whole load of ladies and their bikes 8 Jul 2010 | 01:13 pm
A slow start due to some goodbyeing at Jim’s and then back to Balfour for the third time. Things warmed up pretty quick today and are still sitting at 33degrees now at 8pm! Overtaken on the way to N...
Mountains, vineyards, giant trucks and floating stages. 7 Jul 2010 | 04:31 am
Our other car's a tandem The T-w-A team has become detour-happy! After an easy ride through the Rockies… never thought I’d say that, we arrived in Sparwood, BC, and visited the world’s biggest tr...
Day 52, 53, and 54 – Kaslo Jazz, tree-climbing and clean jeans 6 Jul 2010 | 11:56 am
An early start in Nelson with Kootenay Co-op granola, ah yes. Retraced our pedals back to the ferry crossing at Balfour then headed north to Kaslo after a local told us about every hill on the way th...
