Nr Maligne Lake, Jasper Nat Pk, Alberta, Canada - Alvin gives us a turn...
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“What do you mean you ‘don’t take tents’? You’re advertised as a campsite and the road signs show a picture of A TENT!!!” say I, incredulous in the least.
“I’m sorry but we don’t take tents, we’ve had some trouble with vandalism from ‘tenters’. There’s a site which does take tents 15 km out of town, I can give you directions.”
I: “I’ve ridden 90 miles to get here on a loaded bicycle, I don’t think I can ride another ‘15k’, can’t you make an exception as it’s just me on my own?”
(by ‘loaded bicycle’ did I mean ‘loaded’ like a gun?)
RV site lady: “I’m sorry there’s nothing I can do.”
Me: “I’m not happy, I’m really not happy, this is not on – you should take down the signs 5 MILES OUT OF TOWN WITH A PICTURE OF A TENT ON THEM!!!”
(in hindsight I realise – thanks Nancy – that at this juncture, with a queue of eager but undoubtedly somewhat embarrassed RV-ers building behind me that I was no doubt compounding the view held by ‘RV site lady’ that tenters were aggressive, surly vandals)
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Filed in: Admin, Alaska South, Travel | admin | August 23, 2009 | Comments (2)
Tags: Alberta, Andrew, Athabasca Falls, Avon, Banff National Park, Beauty Creek, British Columbia, Canada, Cate, Columbia Icefield, Continental Divide, Dawson Creek, Death Race, Drive-train, Eureka, Florida 4, Fort Steele, Grand Cache, Grand Prairie, Hail, Helena, Hinton, Icefields Parkway, Jasper, Kootenay National Park, Lake Louise, Martyn, Matthew, Montana, Nancy, Ovando, Radium Hot Springs, Rick, Sabrina, Seeley Lake, Storm, Swan Lake, Tom, Tyre, USA, Whitefish
Nr Toad River, YT, Canada - Yes, I really really am doing all this riding!
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PING! PING! WTF!
No, I’m not trying for the UK table tennis team at the next Olympics, nor am I breaking the strings on a guitar (which is sort of like the sound…) but the spokes are breaking on my rear wheel. Just after crossing the Continental Divide in Yukon Territory we notice at camp that I have one (the first…) broken. After Ward’s kind assistance the spoke is repaired and we set off the next morning but then its ping ping ping ping pingety-ping as I break 4 more spokes in the course of 25 miles (again Ward heroically repairs them for me using his 15 years as a bike mechanic!).
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Filed in: Alaska South, Travel | admin | July 29, 2009 | Comments (3)
Tags: Adam, Alaskan Highway, Alcan, British Columbia, Canada, Continental Divide, Dawson Creek, Fort Nelson, Fort St John, Jacky, Mile 0, Pink Mountain, Ranchiera Lodge, rim, Steamboat, Tim, Toad River, Ward, Watson Lake, wheel, Whitehorse, Yukon
