Dipped into the states a little bit to see a friend, despite losing my computer, which sucked. So ends the trip! Over 4 months and hundreds of extra large Tim Hortons coffees.

Just riding alone on day 1 and with a new friend on day 2. We couldn’t meet up on my first pass. due to him having covid.

My motivation to keep taking pictures was pretty low at this point sorry.

I'm sure Vancouver has lots of cool things to see.

Like these owl bushes

They're pretty cool.

Anytime fitness sending confusing messages to people using the bathroom.

Best part of Vancouver was eating at this place every morning.

That's a 3$ breakfast ( that they charge 5$ for ...). Still, not going to beat that anywhere in Canada.

The place has got that dive bar feel, tons of crap all over. Really made for drunks and hobos. Still, cheap food and super fast service.

Don't these pics make you want to eat there? I went 4 times.

Some "art installation" warning of the impending Waterworld. Coastal locations still highly prized somehow. Woah millionaires sure are dumb, right?

Cool golden plastic sequoia tree.

Found the libertarian store, for all my freedom needs.

First ride in the USA. Didn’t do this one last year. Just one of the myriad highway passes in the region. The views are still pretty nice on this one but the road is littered with trash and you probably shouldn’t go bike there.

The weather looked pretty scary and ominous but I went anyway.

The top of the pass has a little ski town/resort and that's about it. Views at the top of these passes are never as epic as further down.

Very cool views halfway down/up here as the highway winds through a valley. Idiots honking at me while I was taking this picture. Just slow down and shut up, morons.

Forgot my pump this one time. Of course I get a flat from some road metal shard. Thankfully I was almost back home. Just rode on my flat wheel, no prob.

Planned a nice 240km loop around Mount Rainier but was turned around almost halfway because they were repairing some bridge. Would have been a 50km+ detour to actually do a loop. No way was that happening as sundown was already sooner and the temperature much colder at nights. Not stranding myself with no self service at night 100km away from my car or some BS.
Just doubled back and did a little extra climbing. Ended up being a pretty epic ride anyway.

Started the day with this "Brookie" thing. Just a bad cookie on top of a bad brownie. Still awesome. I'm fat, what can you do.

Start of the ride in Buckley. Welcome back to the land of totems.

Little town in Mount Rainier National Forest, with the obligatory Sasquatch theme.

You get a bigfoot and YOU get a bigfoot and YOU get a bigfoot

That one's hungry.

A little of the way up Chinook pass. It was a really foggy day so I didn't even see Mount Rainier despite being basically at the base of it.

Massive dense fog patch as I descended the backside of the pass. Fun fact: Fog is really cold.

Top of Sunset Pass, which is just a 200m bonus at the top of Chinook. It connects the highway to the Okanogan valley. Ride ended up being 10 000feet of climbing anyway, which is...enough...

Took a day off cycling but still did a nice little hike near Shelton, where I was staying with a friend! Hikes always go to prettier places then paved roads. Maybe a new hobby to explore? My calves were sore for a week after this though, as my weak cyclist body is not adapted to any sort of leg impact…

That's about 400-500m up. Pretty epic view for such a random place.

How are the clouds so low?

Was going to do a ride twice as long but I took a wrong turn and just ended up looping back immediately. ANYWAY.

As with everywhere in BC/ WA state, the city centers are desolate and hobo filled but the coastal / hill areas look expensive as hell.

Mount Baker ( I think ) poking out in the distance.

Pet store failing? Turn it into a museum!

Bremerton has a naval base / shipyard. Hard to visit as the entire thing is predictably gated and under high security.

Just did a fast solo ride without taking pictures. The highlight of the day was supposed to be the Washington State Fair. Ended up driving 2.5 hours to get pretty much ripped off. To be fair we went on a weekend. We deserve it.

My friend is raising a squirrel army at his house.

The fairgrounds are there year-round with rides and carnies ready to drain your wallet.

All I cared about was eating ridiculous fair foods. Don't caret to wait 90 minutes for a ride, I got shit to do, like reading reddit...

17$ burger and 12$ Elephant eat ( big beaver tail ). Burger was ok, but come on. COME ON BRO. Waited like 30mins in line for it too.

Maybe next year I do a Sasquatch statue tour. Damn I'll be gone for a decade if I do that.

Fair selling these miracle literate goat savants. Currently trained to spam positive reviews on garbage TV shows at RottenTomatoes.com.

Just did a quick victory ride around the bay. Official end of a long journey. Time to decompress and train myself to stop eating 5000 calories a day.

Waving goodbye to Washington state from the ferry.

One last pic of a person taking a pic. The nostalgia.

Back in Victoria! Look at this James Bond vilain mansion right off the ferry dock.

Downtown Victoria seen from the ferry.

That’s it! 18 weeks, over 10 000km of riding and 30 000km of driving. Thousands spent on gas, hundreds spent at Tim Hortons.
Writing this after being “home” ( don’t really have a home ) for a few days. Decompressing and thinking about what’s next ( paying corporate taxes…).

It’s strange how fast we adapt to new routines and how fast we get back to old habits. Working on a nice final update and highlight reel so I can share this voyage more easily! Thanks to anyone who read some of this blog, it was a lot of hard work to keep it going, but pretty fun in its own way and I have something cool to look back on.

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Touring Canada - USA Bonus and Getting Back Home.