Stories from the Road

On the Port Townsend Ferry:
Top Left: My bike. Top Right: A couple who have ridden their Harley from Wisconsin! Bottom Left: A woman who works at Burnaby Hospital, riding alone, just come from Montana and going as far south as she can before heading back home to work! She's on a Star 1100.


"The Turnaround" at Seaside, OR
On the left: A man from Utah, cycling from Burnaby to Tijuana! A lady from Burnaby (second fellow Burnaby resident I've met!), "just" going to Lincoln City. Those two have been cycling for 8 days!
On the right: Two kids from Alaska, cycling to Tijuana before flying home to go back to high school!

At the Tillamook Air Museum: Bill, from near Fresno. He and his buddy are going up to Vancouver Island, then over to Yellowstone Park. I gave them some tips on Victoria and Vancouver Island. He kept calling it "Busch Gardens".... (Buchant Gardens). Bill used to work in aerospace.


At Mo's in Florence, OR
This is Steve. Steve was born in Burnaby. He's been on the road about a week, but he started in Prince George! After my lunch at Mo's I came out and saw his British Columbia license plate so I went back inside, had the waitress point him out to me, and we had a good chat about being on the road! He doesn't know how far south he's going to get, maybe to the Redwoods then back home to Prince George.

At Cape Blanco, OR
This guy spoke perfect Korean. I know because his Korean girlfriend spoke to him in Korean. He took an interest in my bike, but it was hard to stand upright let alone have a conversation in the 60+km/h winds! He's from nearby, and you can tell because he's wearing shorts and a t-shirt while everyone was covered up!

Pistol River, OR
In the hills in the background they are filming some new car commercial (car was under wraps but there was a nicely placed Audi A6 nearby...) so I thought "this must be a good place to take photos of my bike then. I pulled over and Buzz came over to tell me about the history of Pistol River. He's waiting for the temperature in Brookings to fall (it was over 100F and boy was he right!) to work on his boat!