well, sure enough - sunny days make for boring stories.
this was our longest stretch ever 700mi this day. the sun was so hot for the whole trip we both got sun burned pretty bad. it is wonderful.
the countryside is wonderful, rolling green hills dotted with livestock - i even saw a llama!! oh yeah and the oreo cookie cow - black head and shoulders, black butt and hips, white creamy belly. Gotta love the oreo cookie cow complete with milk!!!
we took a wrong turn at cache creek and headed towards Kamloops. it wasnt a bad thing, it just meant that we missed riding thru hell's canyon or devils canyon i cant remember. what i do remember from previous trips is that it is incredibly gorgeous!!
the road we took was so high up 1444 meters that it looked mostly like desert but still wonderful. it dropped us down into the little town of hope. where we stopped for a little lunch.
oh the border is so close i can taste it. before we knew it - we were in washington. it only took us a little over 24 hrs longer than we thought and technically our plane leaves seattle at 7pm. clint changed the plane reservations to friday at 7pm in quesnel (see i told you i was spoiled)
when we arrived to seattle i had to pee sooooo bad. dont forget im the one that told clint "we dont have to stop at rest areas to pee, i would prefer just to pull off, no stinky outhouse to deal with - just squat do your business and your back on the road"
pfft... in seattle it takes 15min to pee!!! you have to find an exit - stop at all the lights, find a gas station, get the key, do your stuff, (and the bathrooms are just as stinky as the outhouses) return the key, get back on the road, try and find the on ramp - no seattle doesnt always put the on ramps in the same location as the off ramp. deal with traffic, lights, pedestrians. and then finally 15 min later you are back doing 75mph.
i told clint 'i want to go home, where the animals are friendly and predictable - (not like these hostile cars in rush hour traffic) and where it only takes 5min to pee."
we are so close to our destination and yet so far. I told clint i would ride until i was too cold to ride any more. that is how we ended up in lacey, Wa. only 160 mi from our destination. it was about 9pm when we pulled in. we ate first and then went to our room.
normally we kinda unpack a little, straighten up stuff, hang up our gear (mostly so it will dry by morning - hee hee it has been dry for 2 days now), but not tonight, we laughed the next morning - there sat all our stuff in a giant heap on the floor. we were so tired after 700mi it was all we could do just to take it off and die for the night.
im so excited - we are almost there.
this was our longest stretch ever 700mi this day. the sun was so hot for the whole trip we both got sun burned pretty bad. it is wonderful.
the countryside is wonderful, rolling green hills dotted with livestock - i even saw a llama!! oh yeah and the oreo cookie cow - black head and shoulders, black butt and hips, white creamy belly. Gotta love the oreo cookie cow complete with milk!!!
we took a wrong turn at cache creek and headed towards Kamloops. it wasnt a bad thing, it just meant that we missed riding thru hell's canyon or devils canyon i cant remember. what i do remember from previous trips is that it is incredibly gorgeous!!
the road we took was so high up 1444 meters that it looked mostly like desert but still wonderful. it dropped us down into the little town of hope. where we stopped for a little lunch.
oh the border is so close i can taste it. before we knew it - we were in washington. it only took us a little over 24 hrs longer than we thought and technically our plane leaves seattle at 7pm. clint changed the plane reservations to friday at 7pm in quesnel (see i told you i was spoiled)
when we arrived to seattle i had to pee sooooo bad. dont forget im the one that told clint "we dont have to stop at rest areas to pee, i would prefer just to pull off, no stinky outhouse to deal with - just squat do your business and your back on the road"
pfft... in seattle it takes 15min to pee!!! you have to find an exit - stop at all the lights, find a gas station, get the key, do your stuff, (and the bathrooms are just as stinky as the outhouses) return the key, get back on the road, try and find the on ramp - no seattle doesnt always put the on ramps in the same location as the off ramp. deal with traffic, lights, pedestrians. and then finally 15 min later you are back doing 75mph.
i told clint 'i want to go home, where the animals are friendly and predictable - (not like these hostile cars in rush hour traffic) and where it only takes 5min to pee."
we are so close to our destination and yet so far. I told clint i would ride until i was too cold to ride any more. that is how we ended up in lacey, Wa. only 160 mi from our destination. it was about 9pm when we pulled in. we ate first and then went to our room.
normally we kinda unpack a little, straighten up stuff, hang up our gear (mostly so it will dry by morning - hee hee it has been dry for 2 days now), but not tonight, we laughed the next morning - there sat all our stuff in a giant heap on the floor. we were so tired after 700mi it was all we could do just to take it off and die for the night.
im so excited - we are almost there.
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