One more province to go!!!!
Riding through Mount Robson Park
The Majestic Mount Robson-- We got to the parking lot of the Visitor's Center near the start of the park at the end of our 85-mile day's ride. Tired and relieved to have made our goal for the day, we took in our beautiful surroundings. There was so much to look at around us, that we didn't for a few minutes even NOTICE this beautiful mountain back behind us... Keith was looking around at other peaks and when I excitedly said, "KEith look!!" and he finally did, he was like, "Woah. Hahahah" (you know that laugh of delight he does :)
We took many pictures of this mountain.
A frequent sight/rush while on the bike...
Riding through the Robson Valley, Keith and I were in awe at it's beauty. We were struck by these beautiful farms at the foot of sharp, snow-covered peaks. We could easily see why someone would chose to live here. It was peaceful and wonderful. A few minutes after taking this picture, we stopped to watch two healthy teenage black bears raiding someones apple trees... one was standing on it's hind legs eating the apples and the other one alarmed some dogs inside the house whose barking scared them off. Too bad we didn't get a picture...
This was a really cool little town. Of all the towns we have passed through in Canada this summer, McBride, we decided, would be in the top five of somewhere we would ever consider living.
At the local grocery store (we were so impressed with) was an awesome "Cheese counter" we were told about. We love cheese. We decided to celebrate our passage through Jasper National Park and the main bulk of the Rockies with some good cheese. Keith got this Roquefort. He loved it and ate it all right then.
I got this Mango Ginger Stilt. It was AMAZING. We had also gotten some buttery pastries with a walnut glaze and the combination of the two was one of the most succulent combinations of two foods anywhere.
We crossed quite a few of these impossibly high bridges... quite nerve-racking on a bike, but very beautiful. Breathtaking, in multiple ways.
We biked 107 miles this day so that we could end at this rest stop... the only place with people for two-days worth of biking. We felt a little safer here with trucks and cars constantly pulling in, in this, the middle of brown bear, black bear, and mountain lion country. The spot was actually very beautiful, next to a wide glorious river, and had flush toilets and everything! Keith rigged up this little tarp system to block the light from the streetlight nearby. We slept well and did not get a fine.
Hobos.
Eh. Keith loves spiders. And he's discovered he loves photographing them. There were a bunch of these ones living in the cracks of a picnic table we were eating our lunch on. Note the hundreds of baby spiders clinging to this mother's back. Keith thought it was amazing and wonderful. Though I feel these shots he got are great, I prefer not to look at them up close.
These are the Wilkinsons--an Amazing family we met in Prince George who invited us to come and stay for the night, since we had no where to go in town. We were planning on heading for the city park to set up our tent somewhere hidden, but when we realized how sketchy the area was, we were so thankful to (randomly, or not) run into Clayton. It was fun to get to know them and their VERY cute kids and enjoy a wonderful meal of Crepes the next morning before heading off to church. Thank you so much for trusting us, for taking in and feeding strangers. We have been so blessed along our way.
We met the Youngs at church that day in Prince George. They won the lottery, I guess, of having us over after church, or so they acted :) But it turned out that WE won the lottery. These guys were awesome. We had a wonderful time hearing their stories of living in Ukraine during their Mission Presidency years, enjoying a tour of the UNBC campus where John is Dean, perusing their wall of awesome books, and dining with them on an amazing feast of Ribs. They are truly a cool family. We have enjoyed this part of our trip most of all--having the opportunity to witness the lives of families across the continent and learn from them and come to look to their examples and take peices of each to shape the way we want to be in our future family. This definately applied here in the Youngs' home.
So, in Prince George, with one week left of our Summer's ride, our camera stopped working. (It has since been revived). For the rest of the ride, we had to do with our "Go Pro" video camera's still shots which we didn't take very many of. But enough to give the idea...
This was at the Moore's home outside of Burn's Lake. We tried to take a "Go Pro" shot of their family and thought we had, but it didn't work. They are a very nice family we met last Spring on a road trip we took up through B.C. to Alaska who had invited us months ago to stay with them when we passed. It was a perfect ending place for our day and we enjoyed their hospitality for a warm, secure night :)
5,555.5 miles down.
We were invited by a man we met at Morisetown down to the river bank where the local people were dip netting in the raging river.
This was an awesome experience. We took a few hours off from biking to take the opportunity to witness some interesting cultural issues in this community concerning the salmon run. If you want to know more about this, just ask me, I don't want to explain it all online without permission.
This is Kenny--an awesome guy who we enjoyed learning from and joking with down by the river (and me adjusting my bike shorts).
Salmon roe sandwich :)
I loved this. So interesting, so fun. These guys showed us a good time down by the river :)
If you look closely, you can see that this routine Mac & Cheese lunch was jazzed up with some salmon eggs :) Fishy, but good.
I can't say where we got this salmon... I seem to have forgotten :)
When we got to Terrace, BC, we already had an awesome couple, the Bohles, to stay with that we had been hooked up with weeks before. We had met their son in Edmonton who had told us his parents had been following the blog of another bike touring couple and would be very interested in hearing about our trip and that they would love to have us stay with them :) That was so fun-- for weeks they had been following us on our blog and knew all about our trip when we got there. They took us out with them on their weekly date night with their friends. We went to an AWESOME restaurant and got amazing burgers and sweet potato fries--good fuel for the next day. That was followed up by wonderful homemade pies back at the house... They were so fun to talk to and took such good care of us : D
The start of our last day's ride. One day to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!
