Bob and Gales Excellent Adventure

Cool can't wait to hear and see how your trip goes. Safe travels!

best of luck to all involved. I wish you a safe and happy trip.

I'm envious of such a great run. It's great that you guys in the NW are getting together for a little comaraderie and adventure. Happy trails, and be safe. I hope to see alot of pics.

Edited by GaryArf - 22 Aug. 2009 at 4:12pm

I can't thank you guys enough for comming up here, Your great people, I had such a great time,  I went for a drive later that night, and miss the two 2A's in my mirror.  Next trip I'll be heading down south.

thanks again

Bob

I'll start posting the pictures soon (notice the ambiguous time reference, I'm still sorting, one thing I found out, Jane's camera dating is one day short of a year into the future, and Inez's camera is about a year and a half in the past. So I'm still sorting through them) The pictures are a great reminder of a great trip. Bob mentioned the tire thing, to expand, just as we pulled into Bob C's house, I heard a hissing noise, so I ask "where's that noise coming from?" thinking a radiator hose or something, Bob C says its coming from my r/rear tire, so off it comes, Bob handily had a manual tire machine next to his garage so we pulled the tube out, there's a split/cut in the tube, but we couldn't find anything in the tire that would have caused this, my thought is that it was damaged when the tires were installed. Bob C had an old tube that he generously donated, and that was put in and the assembly became my new spare. I can think of a lot of places where a flat tire would have been much more of a pain, and some that would have been downright dangerous, like the 5 mile downhills after the climb that Bob H talked about. Must be living right or something.
HopefullyI can start getting some pics posted in the next few days, still sorting, I think that 700 of them posted in the thread would be a bit much.

OK, here goes. I'm not going to add much commentary, Bob did an excellent job of describing the trip, so I'll just add some captions.
This is Friday 8/21
Here's Bob and I getting ready for the expedition.

Can't I go too? (answer no)

Bob and Inez on the first ferry.

And a view of the other ferry going the opposite way

Bob and I posing with a "mileage sign" at Deception Pass (this idea didn't work out the way originally intended)

And closing up for the first night's motel stop.

Yes what a great thread and adventurous trip! 

Saturday 8/22

Here's the bomb/drug sniffing dog (never quite figured out which one, maybe both) in the ferry waiting line for the international crossing.

After the drive up the big hill that Bob H talked about, we met Bob C at Qualicom Beach. Here's the group milling around the parking strip.

From there we drove to Bob C's house, this is our 3 Jeep convoy. You can only see 2, you're looking through the windshield of #3)

Arriving at Bob's, the first order of business was the tire repair. Bob and I are hard at it while his neighbor supervises.

Tire changed, here's a group photo. From left to right, Bob C, Jane, Gale, Inez, Bob H

And a group shot of the Jeeps, left to right, Bob H's 48, My 47, and Bob C's 46

And a picture of our gracious host, thanks again Bob (can't seem to be able to rotate the pic in this post, you'll all have to tilt your heads to the left, sorry Bob)

Sunday 8/23

Intense calculations going on.

This was so we could make this sign This is also our farthest north point of the trip.

We visited a Canadian Air Force museum, one of their projects was restoring a Mk 9 Spitfire that was flown by a Canadian during WWII, this isn't normally accessible but when they saw the Willy's, they made an exception. Not often one can get this close to history (that's me leaning on the fuselage with my head inside the cockpit) If anyone wants more pics of this let me know, I've got a bunch of the various bits and pieces photographed.

After the museum, we went back to Bob C's place and talked for a while, and did some checks on the 2A's, here's Bob H taking a nap (actually he was trying to figure out a way to de-rattle the exhaust, didn't work and it rattled all the way home) So we drove part way down Vancouver Island and checked into our last motel stay of the trip.