monday OCT 6, 2008

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Hey there,
We are now in cascade, idaho
but it started a few days ago
car b got to kelowna friday night late, had a few beers with buddy dan and made very intricate plans to ride saturday morning.
Saturday morning comes, and we aren't moving very quickly due to the few beers we had friday night, so......breakfast it is.
car b has a great ride with buddy dan though, concluding with sheer drops off a rock face that none of us would had attempted had it not been for the trail ahead being slightly obscure.....due to the few beers we had friday night.
car b was late, so we had to forego showers, and picked up the motorhome, our castle for the next ten days.
motorhome was loaded and we have yet to hear from car a
car a arrives, and promptly loses all of its coolant on the pavement in behind of the RV centre, due to a failed water pump.
next available appt, Tuesday
We obtained parts, tools, coolant, and a successful repair.......or was it?
Cross the border to the USA
brief stop 200 yards prior to alleviate beer bottles from our cargo (driver's are clean no worries)
It seems we also alleviated stuart of his new tubes he purchased as well.......sorry stuart
i bet gordon a half sack we would be hastled at the border.....i owe him a half sack
first night in chelan, safeway parking lot....much to the chagrin of the drunks who pile out of the pub at 2:00, however no trouble ensued
off to the trail head in chelan, and several hours after our estimated arrival we stpped climbing the fire road to no where
lunch and a fire road climb......to no where......descision made and free ride down to camp, passing disgruntled hunters on the way down.
continue back to chelan with no trail found, until we were near where we started and we found the signs....too late to ride though.....tomorrow will better.
eastern washington sucks....not just a little....it is flatter than the american beer in our holding tanks....that we have run through our kidneys.
we ate up some miles to the town where steven king has found all his inspiration, and camped in their municipal park, next to the scythes and and rusty weather vanes.
had spaghetti dinner, beer and cranked bike videos on dicks computer
news of our arrival in phsycho town spread by morning, and most of the community came to check us out.....and bring us toilet paper
friendly scarey town, usa
forgot to mention, on the side of the mountain outside chelan, half way to no where, dicks truck wouldn't run....and we roll started it down the mountain for about 10 kms....then it ran ok
driving down the highway after frighteningville, we noticed the slide in the motorhome shaking precariously.....and also noted the driver could no longer view the highway out of his rearview mirror......much to my surprise we found out the slide was still out on the motorhome, which explains the very erratic driving of traffic travelling towards us
we made it to pullman
where is pullman you ask
washington......that is all we know
so we found a dodge dealership
why do we need one
dicks truck wont run......well it does run, sometimes, unpredictably, which makes for unpredicatable driving towing a horse trailer.
We buy a cam sensor for dicks truck and install it....it stalls......we install a new crank sensor.....it stalls....we give it to the professionals and go drink beer......good decision.
they fix dicks truck for 600.00 and four of us are drunk. all is good
found a bike shop....they had never seen a mountain bike before in real life.....heard of them though.....they also have heard of jackalopes too.
we leave pullman.....but before we leave, we left our shit in pullman. we left it with a nice lady who runs a dog shelter. she was very friendly and salmon and her talked about dogs for a long time.....so long we had to leave without him. turns out she asked why in the hell we were in pullman.......we broke down was our reply.......makes sense she said.
OK, now we are making tracks, and we cross the border into idaho
we expect to see potatoes everywhere
we have now been here for 6 hours and still haven't seen one
but that is not news
news is what happened to dick
his truck is running great, but he is pulling a stock trailer, which is not agood idea in idaho
they pull stock trailers here, but only local ones
the police came after him, expecting he was spreading mad cow desease behind him, and was surprised when the trailer was full of bicycles......so surprised in factl......they failed to realise all of his passengers were intoxicated and hiding beer in their lumbars.
all was well and on we head for anywher but where we have been so far.
tomorrow we WILL ride.

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Comments

[jill]

haha
Ok..let me get this straight..you're travelling in a truck with "issues" and a motor home that's diverting traffic in it's path. You're wondering in obscure places with "unusual" people and in the process flying off rock faces on unfamiliar trails. You've broken down twice, lost some of Stewart's stuff, and pretty much been drunk the whole time...oh! AND been introduced to "the law". A travel agent couldn't have arranged a more suitable vacation for MY husband!!!