Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada) to Whitehorse, Yukon (Canada): Photos 21 to 30

My Greta Garbo phase is over. No longer cycling solo. Met up again with Alain and Tom, Swiss guys that I met last year in South America, in Vancouver. The last time I saw Alain was in Bolivia when I watched him cycle off into the rain forest with Felix the map cutter, an organic farmer from Dresden. At the time I vowed that I wouldn't let myself get hurt again and rush straight into another cycling relationship on the rebound. However time is a great healer. After a year pedalling on my own it has been good fun riding with them from Vancouver to Whitehorse.

We have developed our own exclusive touring language which is a combination of badly pronounced Spanish (with lots of over enthusiastic r's being rolled all over the place), Swiss-German and English.

In addition to the social and economic benefits, travelling together in a group has the advantage of saftey in numbers in Canada. Every day, a bit like the Pope I send my 2 young Swiss guards out into the forest first, to act as appetizers (or appies) for the bears. We have only seen the smaller black bears so far no

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