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We fly home tomorrow but the blog is not complete as I have not been able to get to a computer for ages so I promise to finish it off next week once home. Fingers crossed that all goes well at the shipping agent in the morning with getting the bikes handed over for shipping back to the UK..... watch this space....lots more photos to be seen... read more

ATLANTIC TO PACIFIC ACHIEVED!!! Our arrival in Prince Rupert meant that we had ridden from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Although the last time we had seen a "real" sea had been Port Hope Simpson in Labrador it did not seem that we had not seen a sea as we had seen several huge lakes - Lac St Jean in Quebec and Lake Superior - one of the Great Lakes. THE INSIDE PASSAGE We decided to catch the ferry from Prince Rupert to Port Hardy on the northern tip of Vancouver Island. This is a 15 hour ferry journey that travels down the Inside Passage. We had to be down at the port at 6am which was a little hard after spending a very late night the night before chatting to a mad American who was ... read more

HAVE WE MISSED THE ROCKIES? We rode across the prairies and eventually Calgary loomed out of the wheat fields and at Calgary the Rockies loomed in the distance. After several hours riding we reached the Rockies and unfortunately the rain too. We headed towards Banff and then up to Lake Louise but saw nothing as it was pouring with rain and the clouds so low that we were not really sure if there were mountains hiding away there although the occassional glimpse did reveal snowy topped moutains. NELSON We therefore rushed west to the sunnier side of British Columbia. We stopped off at Kelowna for a very expensive new back tyre for Mark's bike (200 pounds - twice what it would be in the UK) and then headed to Nelson near the US border where we ... read more

We have arrived in the Rockies and seen a sprinkling of snow on the mountains. Having trouble finding a computer on which we can upload photos so once we have there will be about 4 entries posted all at once, so watch this space!!... read more

DRUMHELLER Drumheller Valley is in the heart of the Alberta Badlands and is stunning natural scenery formed by erosion. It is also an area where tens of thousands of dinosaur bones have been discovered and is home to the fantastic Royal Tyrrell Museum. We spent almost a whole day at the Royal Tyrrell Museum as in addition to the very fine models of dinosaus it is a serious paleontology authority. We also enjoyed a day cruising around the Drumheller Valley visiting the famous Hoo Doos (rock formations), the Last Chance Saloon in Wayne which is reached by crossing 11 bridges in 4 miles and generally admiring the interesting scenery. We camped at Drumheller and awoke after a chilly last night there to find the tent frozen solid and the bikes covered in frost too!!... read more

MANITOBA Leaving Ontario we briefly hit the Trans Canada Highway and all the Labor Day Holiday traffic heading home to Winniepeg. We turned north off onto a more minor road and had a fab 30km or winding road until we hit much flatter farmland that did not look very prosperous. The roads are long and straight. We stopped to check the map in Beausejour and Sally decided it looked like a cowboy style town - hopefully a photo attached. We continued to head north east north of Winnepeg and took a gravel road from Inwood to Clarkleigh which went through some marshland that resembled Lincolnshire on a much larger scale. All along the road we saw small bluish coloured small snakes that we were later told are garter snakes. FARMLAND The further west we travelled the ... read more