Vancouver to Mission - 84kmJun 26, 2005
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TDC Group Shot
Wheels in the Pacific
Mmmmm...Timmy's!
| We woke up at 6.00 or so and headed out to our first brekkie at the truck - cold cereal and milk, along with some fruit. Following breakfast, we made our lunch of 2 PB and jam sandwiches and a banana. Man...is this fine dining or what?! ;) After breakfast we all assembled at the truck and rode to the Museum of Anthropology to have group photos done at the totem poles. This took forever as there were 33 different cameras on the ground for tour staff to work through (and I had to pee...). Mom, dad, and Audrey had come out to see us off, so they snapped some pictures too. Everyone in the group was wearing their new tour jerseys. TS noted that in the sedentary world of golf, shirts come in XXL, however the cycling world seems to equate this to an "extra medium." Needless to say, his jersey was a weeeeeeeeeeeeee bit snug...and was taken off right after the photos with the hope that it will be a perfect fit in NF. From there, we all rode en masse down to Jerhico Beach. En masse didn't really work, and TS and I ended up riding with an Australian gal that did the ride last year and was out to see us off. Still needing to pee, TS and I made a pit stop before meeting the group (and the family as well) by the Jerhico Sailing Club. We snapped a few more pictures of us dipping our wheels into the Pacific Ocean and then bid our families farewell and we were off!! Riding to Mission took us along the Union Bike Path, the Barnet Highway, through Port Moody and onto the Lougheed Highway via Port Coquitlam. We rode with a tour vet from 2004 for the first while. Along the way we stopped in Port Moody where the rest of the riders had taken a break. The rest was brief, and before long we were on our way again. TS and I were riding on our own at this point, and stopped at a Timmy's for coffee and to eat one of our sandwiches...oh...and maybe TS enjoyed a couple of TimBits. We arrived at camp around 3.30 and set up our tent. Our tent is known as "the condo." This is because while most everyone has small pup-like tents, ours is huge...with a massive vestibule in which we can have one of our collapsible chairs. Also worth mentioning, is the fact that both TS and I can stand in our tent, with more clearance above us. I'd venture to say that it stands well over 6 feet tall...so it towers over everyone else's tent. After setting up our home for the night, both of us showered (somehow I ended up with a cold shower, while TS' was nice and warm). Next up was dinner...since we were staying at a trout farm campground, the menu was - you guessed it - pan fried trout. It was quite tasty...and it was accompanied by a boatload of rice, some tomato stuff on top, and a nice big salad. After dinner, the rain began to fall...lightly at first and then harder. A group formed at the picnic tables under some cover and enjoyed an evening of faux poker, journaling, and the dulcet tones of "Newfie Bob" who's brought his guitar along for the tour as well. We hit the sack around 10.30...and were asleep by 10.31, with the sound of raindrops cascading on to our tent fly. LD |
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