A road trip

A pitstop at Bow Lake.  Ken's on his new Yamaha Super Tenere 1200 and I'm on my Kawaski KLR 650.

The bush is closed because of bears...we stuck to the pavement.

A stop in Edmonton to visit Shaun and Iris was fun.  Nice to see them.

Farther north Ralph built a place in Mclellan, haven't seen him in a few years.

After being home for 2 weeks it was time for a road trip on the bikes.  Ken had just bought a new bike and was itching to get on it.  Not only that, we were in need of a truck and camper to travel south to Mexico in this winter.  We looked at a few trucks along the way, didn't find anything but we had a great time visiting friends and camping.  3000 km, we just can't seem to sit still.

Guess where we are?

YVR, Starbucks and Haida art.

Gassman Aussie facts:

1.  30,100 km traveled in 170 days.

2.  cheapest petrol, $1.37-most expensive petrol, $2.22

3.  cheapest bananas, $.99/kg-most expensive bananas, $4.99/kg

4.  lots of free camping-most expensive caravan park, $42.00 (no power)

5.  worst beer, Emu-best beer Boag's Brewery

6.  hottest day, 38 degrees C-coldest day, -2 degrees C(we scraped our windshield on White Lightning the day we left Melbourne!)

7.  lowest point latitude, 12 degrees south, highest point latitude, 43 degrees south

8.  most rain in Daintree, 15 cm in one day, driest place ???? rain always follows us

9.  going-left Kelowna at 3:30 pm got to Auckland at 7:00am, two days later

10  coming home left at Melbourne at 11:45 am got Kelowna at 6:15 pm same day