Friday June 7 2013 ... Heading to Mile 0 of the TransCanada Highway

Friday, June 7

Up and on our way this morning headed for Victoria and "Mile 0" of the Trans Canada Highway.  As soon as we arrived in Victoria, and before we were hardly off the bike, a group of Japanese men (from a tour bus), were upon us wanting to get their pictures taken with the bike.  We sure got a chuckle from it...now we know how people in countries we visit must feel when tourists like us want to take their pictures!  It was actually a lot of fun...we felt like quite the celebrities!:).   

It was very busy and congested in downtown Victoria so after a brief walk along the ocean we hopped on the bike and headed for the ferry at Schwartz Bay.  Talk about luck....we arrived just before the 1 pm ferry was starting to board and since we were driving a motorcycle, we were ushered to the front of the line...as there is special parking on the boat for motorcycles...but ended up being the last vehicle on the boat because they had already started to load the cars....normally bikes go on first.  Scrambled a bit to secure the bike with blocks before the ferry pulled away but were delighted we didn't have to wait another hour for the next departure.

Upon arrival in Vancouver, Harry's gps girlfriend took us on what appeared to be a very circuitous route to get us to the highway headed for Hope.  Lots of lights and stops and starts and construction...a real mess to get through the city. It took us over an hour to get from the ferry to the highway.  Lots and lots of traffic for the first little while...started thinning out once we got near Abbottsford.  

We arrived in Hope around 5 pm and decided to press on to Boston Bar, a little town about an hour from Hope on the Trans Canada...gorgeous scenery again, the Fraser River mightily carving its way through the rock.  Cloudy and cool but the views were still beautiful!  Stopped at a little motel on the highway where we have settled for the night...the Alpine Motel...basic but clean and with the best little restaurant right on the premises.  For supper we had the freshest salad ever, a bowl of delicious chili and for dessert an apple crumble with ice cream that was pure deliciousness!  After dinner Harry washed the bike while I caught up on emails.  I'm going to read for awhile and Harry is now watching weird screamy, yelly rock videos....who knew!?! :). Now he is channel surfing so who knows what we will end up with on the tube! :)

Hope all is well in your world...

Janice and Harry