Our time in Vancouver has almost come to an end and the more intense parts of our biking adventure will start soon. We've recently decided to start a kilometer diary of how much we bike daily. Hopefully every time I'm able to update the blog I'll include our kilometers for all the previous days.
We went to Victoria (on Vancouver island) on Sunday and came back on Tuesday. It was an intense 3 days of biking and research, the other component of this trip. It was the first time we had biked a lot of kilometers with all of our stuff and really camped with our stuff too. Everything was amazingly beautiful though. The bike trails in Victoria wound beside the sea, through farms with pigs and chickens and deer, through mini forests, and on a hill leaving the view of the sea and the other islands behind the houses. We got to stay with a friend of a friend the first night who gave us a great bike map and told us what to check out the next day, but that wasn't necessary because we got a first hand look at downtown through a contact my sibing had with a city councellor. He led us around Victoria, showed us new bike improvements and other highlights of the city. We then worked our way to our campground, also nestled in a mini forest, where we proceeded to burn our cous cous and failed to wake up on time to our alarm.
We did research on our way out, biking certain segments of the city and evaluating it before getting lunch and heading out. Another great part about the trip is the ferry ride between Victoria and Vancouver. Victoria is on an island, nestled behind some other islands and so the ferry ride from Vancouver goes by numerous islands that are super green and through an ocean with seals, just a beautiful sight.
Back in Vancouver we've been doing the research we need to get done here and frantically trying to plan as much as we can for the rest of the trip while we still have free internet access and multiple laptops to work on. We leave on a train to Edmonton tomorrow night for a 24 hour journey through the Canadian Rockies. As beautiful as they are, I'm glad we aren't biking them, because my legs are already in a permanent state of sore and are greatly going to appreciate the little rest they'll get on the train.
Hopefully I'll get to update from Calgary.
In kilometers (since I've installed the odometer)
July 30 trip around Stanley Park - 24 km
July 31 trip to UBC and back - 27 km with a big hill
August 1 trip to Victoria - 44 km
August 2 trip around Victoria - 36 km
August 3 trip back from Victoria - 67 km
August 4 research in Vancouver - 24 km
August 5 research in Vancouver - 58 km
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