BC or Bust

My wife and I did a small road trip around BC, exploring some of the towns and roads we have never seen or been on. We also used the journey to explore possible places we wouldn't mind moving too down the road.  For stop was 100 Mile House. We decided to take the more scenic route which meant up through Whistler and Pemberton and the famed Duffy Lake road.

Just past Lillooet and heading towards 100 Mile House.

Next Stop Williams Lake. Was very tempted to head towards Bella Coola but will save that for another day. Took a break in Williams Lake and decided to see if I could find my friends tattoo shop.

Who has ever heard of anyone being in a tattoo shop at 10 in the monring but was glad to meet up with Brian at his shop, Praing Mantis Tattoo. No time for a tattoo... gotta keep rolling.

Just before Williams Lake at 150 Mile House you could really see the devastation 

from the fires that have been plaguing BC all summer long. 

On our way from Jasper to Hinton we hit a major highway closure due to an accident.

A little road side crib helps make the time pass!

Been wanting to do the Icefield Parkway road from Japser to Banff for a while

We encountered all the elements on this road: sun, rain, ice, fire and wind!

About as close as we could get. Was interesting to see the markers as to 

where the ice had been in previous years! 

Seems like more than a few kids have died from falling into crevasses!

Radium Hot Springs. This was some dudes crazy house!

3000 KMs and lots a rad towns that make us think "we could live here"

My wife took more pictures than me... Perhaps an update when I can gain access to her camera!

X-Canada

My wife has starting writing about our recent adventure across Canada.

Painting the picture instead of showing the pictures.

You can check it out HERE

Back from Holidays!

Me and my wife crossed off one of those bucket list entries with our

recent cross Canada MC Ride! 

More to come!

Roadtrip

Took off for a week of riding around eastern Oregon and Central Washington

Let's say Oregon is my new love!

More all week!

Waiting for rain to stop Beer

Mt St. Helens Beer

Mt. Rainier Beer

Creek Beer

Killing Time Beer

Saluting Mountain Beer

Island Bound

Island Bound

A Harley, a Honda, 6 ferries and 1000km later

Riding Vancouver Island (and some Washington State) with my wife

Too much awesome !

Vegas

There will be a lot of Vegas pictures this week. Spent the last 4 days taking in the Las Vegas Motorcycle Auctions and Flattrack racing weekend! Totally sensory overload!

These 2 Honda CZ100  went for 17000 and 12000 

(not sure which went for what)

Road Trip

TJ and Derrick are on an epic roadtrip into the sun and warmth of the south.

Following with envy as it seems to get colder and wetter here!

(thx for representing the Motorcycho patches!)

Daddy/Daughter Roadtrip Goodbye

My 2nd youngest is going to school in Winnipeg for a year (wtf?!) and her last wish was to go for a ride before she goes off to school. Originally we had planed to ride to Winnipeg, but couldn't afford that much time off work so instead we decided to roadtrip to Calgary and she would fly from there. Most of her stuff was shipped out ahead of time but she still seemed to need to take a lot. I think its the most the BMW has ever been weighed down.

loaded down and ready to roll

lunch by the river.... it was HOT!

"Dad, pull over, I need to go for a swim!"

Sunrise roll

Bad helmet hair

she said it was here that she realized she wasn't going to see me for a while!

TUBBY DOG!

Sweet tarts for the boring road sections

When we were doing 100mph

LOVE YOU SAMEE!!!!!!

Renfrew Leftovers

Plan B

I have been planning a ride down to the Mt. St. Helens area of Washington for years. Some great quiet, twisty roads around the mountain I have been wanting to ride. Trip planned. Cross the border and begin the backroads journey down. But.... After the first bit of twisty road, bike stutters, stalls, and dies. New bike covered in plastic and computer bits. Fortunately we weren't at the top of Mt. St. H. when this happened. A few hours later, with the help of our son and a truck, we are back home.
Plan B. Pack up the Pan and get the 250 Honda ready and instead we head over to the Island to do another road I have been wanting to do. Victoria to Port Renfrew to Lake Cowichan and all the little roads in between. Not the big ride I was hoping to do, but a good easy alternative. Our friend Jay lives along the route near Jordan River, but I cant get ahold of him so we make plans to crash at another friends place in Victoria. Last gas stop till Port Renfrew I make one more attempt to get ahold of Jay and he answers. Summer is busy for him and he is usually working with little time to ride, but he has the next day off and would love to ride with us... so we end up crashing at his new house for the night and get to ride together, finally, the next day. The Island rules for riding!

Broke down in Edison, Wa. within minutes we had people helping us out and offering us free food!

Jasons recently built new digs! WOW!

It got hot out!

Questionable but necessary gas stop

Thanks Jason for making our weekend Awesome!

(thought I had more pics handy, but must be on another camera... more to follow)

and... from my wifes blog