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BC Ferries - last leg of a very long trip.
Covered 26 States and 10 Provinces.. 16,826 km
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Day 56; Sunday July 1
Up about 5am and off from BA’s Ranch just after 6:00 on a beautiful sunny morning. It is about 9°C and we have all but rain gear on.
We are through the Merritt just after 7:00 and because it got increasingly cold, we don the rain suits before the Coquihalla summit, just before it starts to rain at 7°. That continues to Hope where we have coffee and a bun before booking it for the Ferry. We just made the 11:00. It is 167kms from Hope!
As we are called to the Ferry, I back into M and she falls. The other bikers and I lift her up and she is pretty vocal about her feelings for me then.
It is sort of surreal taking the Frey for home; it seems forever sine we left.
This shot off the bow confirms that we are at the best place.
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Quote if the day; “ We made it!”
Finish odometer is 68,068 kms, so 419kms today.
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Day 55; Saturday June 30
A lay day at the Ranch with BA, Perry and Audra. What could be finer than that?
Away for almost 2 months underscores how much but yet how so little changes in that time. Everyone is at about the same place
The news of Rick being ill is the only noteworthy change and is further confirmation of the correctness of our decision to go on this little junket.
I remember how to use BA’s world’s most complicated espresso machine, deliver coffee to M in bed, and later BA, and have a quiet moment to do this note and read. Fair enough as, being exhausted, I was asleep before dishes last night. Let the others sleep I say!
It is a beautiful, windy Ranch day. I finish my book and snooze before we go on a long ramble about the property. Dinner being prepared is out of this world. BA makes a fava bean on toast with many scrumptious other things apps, and there is a leg of lamb and tons of vegetables coming!
No mileage
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Day 54: Friday June 29
Michele was on it right out of the starting blocks this morning; “You’re a good husband when you want to be.” Quote if the day.
Up at 5:30, coffeed and off at 6:05. Take Doug’s advice and take hwy
8 out of town through nice developments and the gentleman ranches to a Petro Can on hwy 1 for the first fill of the day
The ride to Canmore is spectacular as the rain clouds had all blown east of Calgary and he sky was clear to about Banff. The mountains approaching the Park were as beautiful as anything we have seen: a reminder of what we have right here.
Nice young Czech chap in the coffee place in Canmore and blow through the Park and to Golden and the Diner for oatmeal.
It was an everything on day from the get-go. Not the rain suit at the beginning, but they came on early because it was so cold: 6.5°C at the start.
Good thing as the rain started intermittently at first after Golden and got increasingly frequent and violent as the day passed.
Met Dee and Barry for lunch at the Home Restaurant in Salmon Arm. Both are extremely well. It was pouring when we left and M was pretty vocal about her displeasure with the decision to ride on
But as ever, it was clearing up in the distance.
Beer and wine and gas fetched in Kamloops and on hwy 5a it rained hard, and then harder when we turned onto Roche Lake Road, and then went crazy when we took BA’s road. Slipped a couple of times but stayed upright. The top half was a little drier, but the lightning was disconcerting. On the final approach the herd of cows refusing to vacate the road and the big one who insisted on making eye contact, and keeping it, was a new experience. We made it through the gates and to the Ranch in the rain, before the others.
Bikes into garage and us inside as everyone arrived. It is so comforting to be home with friends
Then the weather turned to the below. M did not want to ride down and do the approach again in the sunshine.
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final reading 67,649, so 708 kms today
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Day 53 Thursday June 28
Up late at about 9:00 after a nice evening with Doug and Karen. We go off to the big motorbike store in Calgary when I got the below shot of M doing what she likes best.

The LRT in Calgary works well, the motorbike store is huge and fantastic but M cannot be persuaded that I require new pants.
The day drifts by pleasantly and we have a chance to have a nice long chat with Doug before dinner at Earls with Barb Cassidy. That is pleasant and is a nice precursor to sleep and an early day tomorrow to ride up the Ranch.
Quote of the day from Karen speaking of Ladies’ golf day; “ I enjoyed his lack of presence”
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Day 52: Wednesday
Up at 7:00 in the Grant Hall, free breakfast in the dining room was great.
On the road by about 8:00, nice clear, cool morning. Moose Jaw was maybe the best preserved/maintained small city this trip.
Traffic is light all day. Hwy 1 is as I recall from three years ago, the scenery is great through Saskatchewan that is green and apparently prosperous.
We do not go back into Maple Grove to the cowboy store and keep going to Swift Current and Medicine Hat and the Fresh Cafe for a nice green salad.
Still 300kms to go today though, and one we were in Alberta and the badlands, sherry was less interesting and the ride was a bit of a slog
M still big into the phone, hence this photo of her with it in hand in a TH’s.
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The approach to Calgary and Doug and Karen’s is dictated by Googlemap that takes us south if the city and in on Deerfoot Trail. My tank bag holds the iPhone that is hard to read because of the reflective plastic, but I get glimpses from time to time. I make a guess at what a hard left meant on the guide when approaching a cloverleaf and by pure chance chose the correct road out of the plethora of choices and we go straight to our target, the wine store, and to Doug’s.
Nice dinner and visit and long sleep
Quote if the day I think was M again self-declaring how proud she is of herself having gone so far and done so well on this ride. She is amazing as Dr. Donna says, and she does not hide it.
Finish mileage is 66,941 so 755kms for the day
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Day 51; Tuesday June 26
Up and off by 5:40 but M slows the pace immediately by a visit to TH’s in Wpg and then Portage and then the below snooze in Elkhorn.
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I am hopeful of making Moose Jaw before there are thundershowers as last time we got rained on and I got hell for that.
The ride to Broadview, where we stop again at Al’s Steakhouse for a late breakfast, is pleasant. There is light overcast, so not too hot, some curves and undulations in the road, and almost no traffic. We are able to make good time.
I notice that there are many small birds, including red-wing blackbirds darting back and forth.
I order the Senior’s portion of liver and onions and the waitress did not want to believe I qualified; a nice stroke. M had cheesecake.
The rest of the ride was much of the same but because we took off the puffy jackets because it was warm standing outside leaving Al’s, it was cold on the bikes when under cloud.
We make the Manitoba expressway into Moose Jaw by 2:00.
The Grant Hall Hotel is a lovely old boutique hotel right downtown by the park and everything else going on.
We go out, pay the LSBC, check out the nice shops, have a beer and nachos, visit the lovely courthouse and a gallery in the old land titles building, and find this picture that M is thinking about.
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We buy olive oil at the jazzy store in the hotel.
After a snooze we go out to dinner at the Hopkins House, a lovely restored mansion where M has a very long, all dinner long, chat with our waitress who cemented today’s quotes for me.
Moose Jaw is a very nice, pretty well preserved small city with lots to offer for a few days’ visit
Quotes of the day,”fer sure” and “I’m not feelin’ it”. The former indicates agreement, confirmation that something is as it was described, good or bad, and all is OK. The latter is what the spouse says just before leaving for good.
Mileage 66,186 so , 650kms
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Day 50; Monday June 25
Visit day in Winnipeg Up to chat with Kris who is recuperating nicely from a torn retina and handling sitting still very well.
M and I are slated to take Mum out at 11:00 and have brainwave to go to the Shaftesbury where Mickey has our large bags, and ship them home by bus. We do that; the $90 cost is a bit much but not having the dead weight to haul around is nice. Should have done it long ago.
Lunch with Mum went very well. Her wheelchair isn’t much more hassle than the walker, and she was in superb form
Despite the fact that the Park Restaurant was noisy and one had to lean in hard to hear Mum, the conversation covered all kinds of topics and Mum told stories, new and old, made jokes, and was as good as I have seen her in some time
Mum seems very content with her arrangements now and so appreciative of all that Mickey has done and is doing.
Lunch is over all too soon as Mum just gets tired: it is nothing personal.
After farewells, M and I get fixin’s for dinner( see, I am blending in) at DeLucas, the fantastic Italian deli, for pizzas. Take that Liam!
We see Mike at the Grove with a comedian friend of his, go home(a little late) make the pizzas, which improves tempers on Dominion St. And have a nice visit and enjoy Ralph and Kris’ always generous hospitality.
No mileage but the quote from Mum went something like “ despite what he did as a kid he turned out alright”.
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Day 49: Sunday June 24
A travel and start to visit Mum day.
Mum was not well yesterday and so we were scheduled for 3:30 tea and not dinner.
Leisurely morning, coffee, breakfast and get organized before a third walk to the highway and the ride to Wpg. Mickey takes the big MEC bags, and that makes the bike handling much better. Dad to say goodbye to the Lake, but without Mum and all the siblings or at least the fun nephews, it is a bit dull without a project and a budget to spend.
Mum turns out to be relatively excellent, as she says, and she seems curious why we would come to Wpg just for tea and asks us to dinner. We accept. Mickey joins us as this is one of her sleepover nights.
Mum strikes me as being much the same as at last Christmas with the continued deterioration added on top. However, when she can get a word in she is sharp, with it and humorous. She checks out the bikes: I am not sure she approves. We will lunch with her tomorrow. I will angle for the Thermea Spa, M is leaning towards the City Park. We’ll see.
Mileage about 200kms.
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