This is the second story of a 17 part series about my trip to British Columbia in August 2015 as the photographer for the Canadian Bible Society's Bike 4 Bibles bicycling tour. The first part can be found here:
http://www.thelilydipper.com/uncle-travelling-dan/b4b15-roadies
Eight smooth hours later, I was standing outside the Vancouver Airport waiting for a fellow whom I had never met to pick me up. Dave and Lily Louie are fabulous people! When Dave and I arrived at their house near the airport, there were platters of fruit and muffins and other wonderful foods set out for lunch, and a baking sheet sized fillet of fresh Pacific salmon that was about to go into the oven. I thought I'd arrived in foodie heaven: I mean, I'd been off the plane for two hours and I was about to dig into a perfectly cooked salmon on the west coast, with fresh fruit and other goodies!
There were also two cyclists from Alberta, Jim and Ralph, who had been on the Alberta Triangle Ride the previous week with Dave and Lily. They had all returned to Vancouver the previous night. It was a long trip made even longer by a serious crash up in the mountains. Jim and Ralph were taking a day to rest between the week long rides among the Rockies and the Pacific Coast. I should also mention that Jim and Ralph are both over two decades older than this 40 year old author! A few other riders were doing the same thing, participating in both tours back to back.
1. MS Chi-Cheemaun, retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Chi-Cheemaun
2. S-Class Ferry, retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-class_ferry 2016/07/03