It's been a rough start. And by rough, i mean that the universe is totally on our side.
A quick synopses of the day:
11:28 spraypainted my helmet gold.
12:00 christina locks us out of her apartment.
12:30 we make it out of tina's apartment under the gun and almost leaving behind such insignificant things as... my passport.
12:46 my shoe breaks in the middle of downtown seattle, in the rain, in the middle of a business day, and i am now stuck to my bike with 60 + lbs strapped on the back.
1:08 we arrive at the bus station where we are told that there are, in fact, no bike racks on amtrack buses. (this feature has not been offered in the last decade.) bus is to depart at 1:15.
2:02 we make the bus driver, and everyone on it the bus, wait for us while we are forced to pack our bikes into boxes. in a hurry. aaahhh!
4:10 christina coaxes me into saying "tricky jesus" somehow. i will not recount the conversation here.
5:34 we arrive in vancouver. assemble our bikes. buy some gold medal winning maple syrup and postcards with wolves on the front (spirit animal!) and leave the bus station.
5:55 asked by two boys to hang out on the waterfront and smoke a fatty blunt. (denied.)
5:58 welcomed to canada by a boy on a black and white striped bike.
6:04 asked where we're going on our bikes and have our breaks checked by a canadian man who likes bikes.
6:20 meet thomas (the desk guy at the cambie hostel where we are now interwebbing and staying in top bunks in separate rooms on different floors) who puts our bikes in a secret bike storage room and points us in the direction of the towns best bike shop.
7:30 we find the coin operated interweb station!
who knows what shenanigry we will encounter tonight!
canada is awesome.
things to do:
find a camera (for blogging! thanks for nothing ginny)
fix my shoe
go to a hockey game
drink lots of molson ice
kiss boys with accents
treat hangovers with kraft dinner and ketchup chips
tomorrow we ride!!!!!
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ah! it'll be the time of your fucking lives, i swear! i don't know if you ever saw my bike blog, but you can access that shit here:
http://sprocketsandwanderlust.blogspot.com/
i just rode along Big Sur, and that stretch of Hwy 1 is mind-bottlingly beautiful. your mind's totally gonna get bottled.
have fun!fun!fun! get a hold of me and Kasey when you come through SF; you should take a two-day vacation here. and be sure to bring chamois butt'r. because chafing is the enemy...
Did you get your shoe fixed?
don't you forget who introduced your ass to ketchup chips!
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