Hello all… I find myself today in the beautiful city of North Vancouver on the eve of our fateful adventure… Our bikes are in our hotel room overlooking the bay and the sudden realization that our journey we’ve been waiting and planning for is about to begin…

I just want to say thanks for those of you praying for us and thinking about us…

I consider myself an optimist, yet I always expect bad things to happen… Sure enough, my laptop crashes when it arrives in Vancouver after a long drive from Calgary… I had intended to use it to write this blog and add pictures, but I ended up using my local good friend’s laptop instead… Oh, and my cell isn’t working properly… But at least I survived my drive down here on three hours of sleep! Monster energy drink is literally a life saver…

Today we took a ride around Stanley Park without all our gear just to enjoy one last joyride before the long haul… I found it interesting that we were surrounded by so many children on bikes, tourists, people walking their dogs and rollerbladers and then I thought of how we won’t be experiencing much of that at all throughout our trip… It really starts to become clear how unique a trip like this is… Not many try it, and most would never dream of doing it…

I think Braden and I have the right mind-set heading into this… I think we have the right amount of people supporting us in the background… I think we have faith… All I know is when my foot hits the peddle for the first time tomorrow, my eyes will be facing east, and though we fully intend to enjoy this journey along the way, our goal is set, so it’s East here we come and so long to the West!