Saturday, August 30, 2008

August 30; 38km; 837M Vertical

St. John’s to Cape Spear and return.
We polished off the formal bit of the tour with a ride to Cape Spear, the most easterly point of North America. True to form the lighthouse and the ocean were invisible due to heavy fog. Five minutes after we arrived another cyclist, just finishing his Cross-Canada tour, showed up. He was accompanied by his wife (in a car) who had a bottle of Champagne. We had a bottle of Screech. We toasted everybody and had our pictures taken by 5 different cameras. Then as we partied the fog cleared for 30 minutes and we got our pictures of the most easterly point before heading back to St. John’s.
The final stats for the trip Victoria to St. John‘s: 8027km distance and 50,473M vertical climbed.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Congratulations to both of you for a job well done.

Hoist a glass and enjoy a beer and remember us here in the sunshine clear.

Have a good flight home.
Emily and Dad. Wilmot Creek.

Anonymous said...

Congratulations, well done!

Good to see you've done it!

Take care,

Steven, Katja & Heiko.

Anonymous said...

Congrats!!! That is amazing!! I was in a pub in Sydney today watching a Jazz band, and I ordered a bottle of champagne to toast to your success!! Absolutely amazing.. have a good flight home!

Love Caroline

Anonymous said...

Dear Cousin Tim and Euro Tim: from your relatives (well, some of them anyway), in Thunder Bay...CONGRATULATIONS GUYS!! What an amazing journey you took and thanks for allowing us to be a small part of it as well as keeping us entertained throughout this past summer. What's planned for next summer? Love, Cousin Sharron, Frank, Melissa, Jim and Families.

Anonymous said...

Congratulations!!!!! Awesome!! Can't believe you are finished. Way to go. How's the hangover today? :)
Katherine

Anonymous said...

Congratulations Tim n Tim ! a great journey...

Thanks for including Lethbridge on the tour, we shall toast your achievement with a Tower or two at Pops".

Dave and Sonia

Wendy said...

Tim and Tim
Great pictures. Must seem like a long time since Manning Park. But we know how it feels to finish such a monumental journey. We shall raise a toast to you tomorrow after we complete our short bike ride.
Yea Team!!!!
We think wea are going to ride to Mexico from Vancouver next year. Want to join us???

nancy b said...

Congratualtions guys!! Now what are we all going to do while having our morning coffee? Good job!!

What an amazing journey for you both. And thanks for sharing your journal and photos.

Until next time, continue to travel safe.

Anonymous said...

Hello there, what a great trip, well done! I'm sure you have had a brilliant time. So what's the next trip going to be :-)?
But before that I look forward to seeing you again next week...
Lots of love, Tanja
PS: Look for DressWarmingSession1 on youtube.com. I'm not keen on our performance there (we've had hours of training since) but you will get the picture... XXX

Anonymous said...

Tim and Tim, likely the very last comments and very late. Just getting caught up on e-mail and suddenly realized your journey was likely over. What a journey, thanks for letting us share the adventure. Yoy are always welcome in Vancouver and where the shortage of beer is never an issue. Well done.

Bob