Very cool, why is the harness a different colour in the 2 pics?
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Re: The long road home - Intro and an epic road trip all for a car.
Very cool, why is the harness a different colour in the 2 pics?
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Re: The long road home - Intro and an epic road trip all for a car.
A clear day in Seattle and no picture of mount rainier?!Leave a comment:
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I was just going with the information it gave me. I was surprised it said oldest considering its on the west coast.Originally posted by sabbySC View Post
Upon further reading it is the first light house (aka oldest) on the west coast, not Canada. My bad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisgard..._Historic_Site
Glad you enjoyed the pictures though.Last edited by Ponto; 10-07-2014, 10:31 AM.Leave a comment:
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Nice try with the lighthouse....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambro_Island_Light
i enjoyed the pics though.Leave a comment:
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Ah dang we forgot all about the gum wall!! And pikes brewery, did not know about this place... Next time for sure! We do love Seattle it's a great place to visit.
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Isn't Seattle great?, Did you ever get to check out Pikes brewery? I was there a couple weeks back in the M while visiting my brother who lives in kent, also there's a very odd tourist attraction real close to pikes called the gum wall you should check out
too,Last edited by TerryM3; 10-06-2014, 06:02 PM.Leave a comment:
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Next day.
Which is Day 5 I believe.
MUUURICA!!!
We headed south bright and early, first stop - Bellingham!! Met up with a fellow A3 enthusiast named John and his White 3.2 to hand over an HPA Puck mount for a fellow in South Africa who was flying to the U S of A for H20i and wanted it for his bagged S3 back home.
Smell that raw fuel!! Car sounded great with the SS Headers and Neuspeed exhaust. John led us to a local spot for breakfast where we chatted and enjoyed some good food. (Thanks John!!)
After that we were planning to head south to the outlet malls, and well the best way to get there was Chuckanut Drive, yaaay! (Melissa didn't know it yet, but she wasn't going to be to impressed)
With John leading the way we headed south, been 2 years since I drove this fantastic road I really need to do it more often! We sped away, working our way south and slowly increasing the speed too haha. Ran into a bit of traffic, but once they turned off John romped on it! I followed suit of course, which was quickly followed by "Ryan!!! Slow down, I am going to tell my mother on you!" Haha, this is the exact moment where Melissa was no longer enjoying the scenic route. But truth be told she actually did fantastic as we did drive all of it at a fairly brisk pace.
Once we reached the end, John turned off we said our goodbyes and continued onward! Didn't take long for us to hit the outlet mall so off we went for some shopping (Melissa was very happy again and forgot all about the spirited driving and noisy car)
Wallet thoroughly beating we left the outlet mall and continued our trek into Seattle!
Parked the car not to far from the space needle and went out exploring, ended up doing a ton of walking and seeing a lot of cool stuff! Even rode the ferris wheel.
Talk about a perfect day in Seattle, no rain to be seen for miles!! Which made for an excellent day of wandering and touristy stuff.
That kinda sums up our day in Seattle, typical stuff - space need, ferris wheel, Pikes Market. Oh right we did head downtown a bit, checked out nordstroms (read - very happy melissa) before having dinner at the Old spaghetti factory with some awesome service actually, way better then what we get here in Edmonton anyways. And ended up back at our hotel in Bellevue for the evening!
Was a busy day, lot of walk. My feet were toast by the end of it all haha but all in all a great day with even better weather!Leave a comment:
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Day 4!! Time to explore some more of the Island.
Slept in a bit, then heading to Wanawafle for breakfast, it was ok - nothing mind blowing lol. We slowly walked back down through Victoria to the car and started off north up the Island to meet up with my cousin who lives in Ladysmith. Took about an hour to trek the short distance, highways were 80kph for most of the stretch with a little section at 100. But a really nice drive.
Apparently I didn't take many pictures for that stretch... haha We met up with my cousin and continued north towards Nanaimo, stopped along the way to get some fresh Salmon and Halibut for dinner!! Mmm so damn good.
Love how calm the water was
After getting the fish we continued north towards her Cabin at Horne Lake (About an hour north of Nanaimo)
Stopped at Qualicum beach for some ice cream! Man it was amazing, loving every minute of the drive and all the little stops my cousin took us on!
Melissa enjoying her ice cream and walk.
baaaam
And here is where the pavement ended! As we got closer the the cabin we ventured off the highway! Nothing to bad, just gravel and dirt, some rough areas or so it seem'd but the car handled it just fine - not even a complaint from the gf haha.
Didn't take us to long and we had arrived!
Awesome little cabin, no power, no cell service. It was great - Had solar power for lights, and then propane for everything else. Was awesome to get away from everything!
We ventured down to the water right away, man alive what a beauty of a lake.
My cousin brought her labrodoodle (sp?) name Doodle with her so Melissa jumped right on playing with her! That dog seriously loved the water, and rocks oddly enough - would dive down into the water and bring them back up. Funniest thing ever.
We figured there was plenty of sun lefft so we grabbed the canoe and hit the water for a bit. Was so calm and peaceful - felt great!
Just like that another day came to an end. Such a great vacation thus far!
Almost done our touring, up next Washington!
Cheers,
Ponto
Oh Right! Day 4 Distance Traveled = 190km
Trip Total = 1,620kmLast edited by Ponto; 09-30-2014, 07:03 PM.Leave a comment:
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Thank you! Kinda got the ball rolling with my other trips, think I will keep these going for future road trips and I have a blog now for trips that might not invole my car haha.Originally posted by Lars View Post
Ah way up in the middle no where land there, friend of mine has a cabin somewhere around 100 mile house I think, we stayed there once. Beautiful area for sure!Leave a comment:
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Awesome travel log!
About 600 km from Vancouver ( between Barrier and Clearwater ) is a small place called Little Fort - when I go back to see my family I turn there and its about a hour up highway 24 on a cattle ranch I grew up on.Leave a comment:
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You didnt realize that the Provincial capital had Parliament buildings?Leave a comment:
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