Day Two: June 6, 2007

These are pictures that we forgot to load yesterday. The two of me are on the Quadra ferry from Quadra to Campbell River, and the one of Brandon is from our ride on the ferry from Nanaimo to Horseshoe Bay yesterday. From now on we promise more pictures! Cause they are really the best part.







Comox to West Vancouver
Total km: 190
Biking km: 20.1


So today we had a ride from Comox to Nanaimo. Kinda cheating, we know. But we really wanted to get to west Van early enough so that we could do some errands. Brandon's mom Mary gave us a ride because she was conveniently heading down to Victoria yesterday morning. Not too shabby we though. Especially when we got into Horseshoe bay and had to bike and amazingly hilly 18 km to my Granny's. Warm up for what's to come.

Before any of this happened though, right as we were leaving my Grandparents in Comox, Brandon realized that he had lost a bolt to his cleat, making it impossible for his cleat to clip into the pedal. This setback was already in addition to fixing the quick release on the right side tire, which had been ground down to the pin after flipping yesterday. So we headed down to Simon's Cycles. A bike shop that my granparents had highly reccommened to us. And man they were amazing! They not only gave Brandon and old bolt for his cleat, but two extras as well. And they had an old quick release kicking around that they used to replaced the weathered one. We were just in awe! Despite the rain, and the repairs, we were in a good mood. Simon's is definintely the coolest bike shop we have been to!

We then met Mary in Courtenay and got a ride to Nanaimo. She had had to take all of the back seats out of the van though, so Brandon and I rode for a while sitting up against the side of the car, until we realized that with a little shuffling of baggage, we could lie down very comfortably side by side, with our heads resting on Mary's duffle that conveniently had a pillow in the top. It was great! And allowed us a much needed power nap.

Nothing exciting happened again until about 5 blocks from my Granny's place when this time my bolts came loose. I managed to get my entire cleat stuck in my pedal. Fixing this required a lot of man power from Brandon. Our shoes are now both fixed, and we now know to check them everyday to make sure that the bolts are secure. We just keep learning new little things every day.

Anyway, enough for now, Brandon thinks that I wrote too much!!

Talk to you soon, Katie (and Brandon)