19 August 2018

Motorcycle Ride US to CA to US

Someone Is Behind In Their Blogging!!!! This is a "guest" post! I will let the primary blogger explain her absence from this blog for over 3 weeks.

The week that Jen was gone the Pups/Cat and I stayed in Lynden, WA trying to stay cool in the heat.  At the end of the week I took the pups to a kennel for their stay while we were away in CA, and Mookie prepared and setup for our local cat watcher.  We had one of the young women from the campground go to the RV everyday and love and pet Mookie so that she would not cut our throats for leaving her alone for 5 days.

On Saturday Patrick and Peter came up from Seattle area on their motorcycles and picked me up for our adventure up into CA.  Pete took us into town to one of the local Dutch restaurants in Lynden (Dutch heritage).  We then took off for the border, immigration and then into CA, east of Vancouver.  It just so happened that it was British Columbia Day weekend and the major road was packed.  We finally got off and headed North toward the mountains and had a good ride up to Lillooet.  Pete found us a fine outstanding 1 star hotel in the town, who apparently could only give us one room (for 3 of us) although 2 were reserved.  They had a rush of people staying overnight due to one of the major roads was shut down for fire and smoke. Luckily I had earplugs!




Next day was off to Whistler to the South and into the tourist areas.  We got into town and linked up with Jen, parked our bikes, settled into the condo and off to quench our thirst at a brewery.

We stayed one night, and left for Squamish BC (south of Whistler toward Vancouver).  Had a great Condo, just me Jen, Patrick, James and Peter.  All others had to go back to Seattle / work.  The next day we left for the ferry docks to catch a ferry across the bay to one of the peninsulas on the Straits of Georgia.  Good riding there, albeit some traffic, and ended at a brewery prior to heading back across the water on the ferry that afternoon.  Then back to Squamish.
Peter left the next day, as did James and Patrick, I and Jen just hung out at the condo all day.  The next day we left on bikes through Vancouver to the border crossing near Lynden, WA.  Got back home, made up with Mookie and Pat and Jen went and sprung the pups from the kennel.  Pat stayed the night with us and took off the next day back home.

Great ride, even if we could not get the intercoms to work so that we could all enjoy Peter while riding, but it was still great views and roads.  Hard to believe that it was 3 years prior that we did the Banff / Kamloops ride in Alberta.


 

 

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