The last few days in the Okanagan Valley has been unbelievably warm, yesterday when I spent the night in Enderby it was 36 degrees at 10:00 in the evening! I probably took in 8-10 litres of fluids that day.
I'm now in Kelowna making arrangements to fly home (Regina) tomorrow. The fire situation is not good, haze for the last 2 days, in fact in Vernon I had ash sitting on my bike after a a brief pit stop for lunch. Very hot, dry and smokey.
There is never a time when you are riding on highways that you are completely relaxed, your continually checking the road ahead for debris, checking your mirror to see when the next truck or motor home is going to try squeeze by you. So yesterday when I entered Kelowna through a major construction zone, I must admit my mind went to a place that it shouldn't, thoughts of being done, heading home hit for the first time, and I was enjoying the the ride in when "it" happened. A FLAT tire. I heard this horrible crunching noise as my bike passed over a bunch of glass that I obviously wasn't paying any attention to, and within seconds I was riding on the rim. Can you believe it, 2185 km door to door (Swan River - Kelowna) and I get a flat at 2179!
I will make one last post tomorrow to share some closing thoughts about the trip.
Too bad it has ended this way. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, it has been fun to follow you!
ReplyDeleteGood to hear you arrived safe and sound. Shame about the flat but you couldn't have expected to do that journey and not experience one of 'Murphy's Law'. Flew to Scotland and Germany this week with work and kept thinking about you taking on this challenge, doing all these miles,pushing yourself to the edge, - nothing for it, had to pour another JD & coke in the VIP airport lounge to get over the guilt...!!
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