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Riding into the ferry terminal carpark at Haines, Alaska, it’s a big carpark and I ride down the No. 2 lane as I’d been told, already a lot of cars and 8 bikes there, suddenly a car driving down lane 1 turns in front of me, I veer right, evasive action mode, to try and get around but he’s turning too fast and I smash into his right front corner, wobble on a metre or two and crash out!!

ENJOY THE TRIP?….COME BACK IN THE FALL!

Bill Shum
2006-08-21 17:00:55

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Off the port side…another little humpback is frolicking, unbelievable, standing on its head, waving its tail about, slapping the water…too weird!

Woke at 4am Monday morning, the big horn is blasting…every 5 minutes for 5 seconds, we are in a real pea-souper, cold and clammy, yuk, and hard to sleep in 5 min bursts!! But eventually it burns off and another sunny day. By the second night I had gotten a $2 blanket from the purser and was snug as....prior, I only had (all) my clothes and a skimpy fleece sleeping bag...suitable for tropical climes only!

Funny how even on a ship like this, not really so big, I keep seeing people I Amazing Alaskan Inner Passage Panoramahaven’t seen before, and other times I go for a day without seeing someone I know.

Then our final night and a bit of a party, all the bikers together with a couple of others, once more that intense bonding experience at sea…like we’re all now blood brothers…and I know how quickly that will all become just a memory…altho’ I reckon there are a couple of people from this trip I will continue to keep in touch with.

8am Tuesday morning, Bellingham at last...sort of halfway between Seattle and Vancouver and we head off up the ramp and off in all directions, scattered to the winds, I head for 5 North and Vancouver, a particularly prickly dork at the Canadian frontera spoils my mood for 3 nano seconds...what's his problem??...but soon I’m back in Vancouver…just in time to catch Germany being beaten by the cheating actors team…and now the streets are awash with Italianos blowing their horns…I just hope they don’t go all the way! Go Portugal??

And I still have to backtrack to before Alaska…or is it all old news?…we’ll see…maybe I'll back post that entry tomorrow.......and thanks for all the feedback...it's always awesome to hear from you.......Go Dees
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