On the ride back to the Hotel through the lower Badlands, we have developed scenery overload, we have seen way too much for one day. We live in a beautiful country, one that we take for granted. Today it’s been jagged mountains and desert plains with a great sunset at day's end.
Travel Thoughts for the Outrageously Adventurous. It is always recommended to Travel Fearlessly.
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Riding the Badlands, Sturgis, and Mount Rushmore
On the ride back to the Hotel through the lower Badlands, we have developed scenery overload, we have seen way too much for one day. We live in a beautiful country, one that we take for granted. Today it’s been jagged mountains and desert plains with a great sunset at day's end.
Saturday, August 13, 2016
The North Puget Sound Loop: Four Boats in Three Days
Our recent trip to Washington was about doing somethings that I always wanted to do as a kid, but never had the chance to do them. We call Tennessee home now so it was good to get back west to ride motorcycles. A couple of these things were riding to the ocean going ferry from Port Angeles to Victoria. Then riding Motorcycles on Vancouver Island in British Columbia Canada. This was a trip where we checked off both of these things from our bucket list.
Once we make it back to Port Angeles we have missed the ferry by 15 minutes. This turned out to be a good thing. It's the 4 of July right? When checking in for the 9PM ferry we learn that Port Angeles 4th of July parade starts at 6PM. So we walk from the ferry dock 2 block up to the parade route that is on main street. It is kind of chilly so we grab some coffee and watch the parade. The Northwest has a large Norwegian emigrant population so there were the usual viking floats. It was a nice friendly crowd. We were given a couple of small American flags to wave during the parade.
It is a 2 hour ride across the straits the time goes quickly we have reservation at the Victoria on the Harbor Days Inn. It is right across the street from the ferry terminal. So we hop on the bikes drive off the ferry go through customs. We check in close to midnight, it has been a long day. We saw a lot today it was a good ride with lots of memories.
It is a surreal feeling waking up in a foreign country especially next to a provincial capital building. We spend the morning walking around Victoria taking a tour of the British Columbia capital building what an awesome site to see. There is a small museum inside the capitol rotunda with exhibits on Queen Elizabeth's dedication and different indian displays. I have said this before about visiting Canada there seems to be a internal order to things. It feels a lot like europe.
Once in Nanaimo we stay at the Best Western Dorchester downtown across from the Marina. Nanaimo has a small but orderly downtown a great european feeling. Before dinner we wandered into a local pub and I'm bombarded by questions about Donald Trump. What can I say America has lost it's mind. They are very scared of him winning, him putting the world in great danger. I try to put their minds at ease and say he won't win the general election. From the looks of things he probably won't. We walk down to the Marina and have dinner at Trollers Fish and Chips Shack on the dock one of the better meals of the trip, seafood right off the boat.
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