Day Three: An Ugly Turn!

Ok... So after the scary fog and rainy day yesterday... This is what I woke up to on day 3:

Colder and Rainy-er!

I get on my bike and plug in Vancouver to my GPS.... I ride for about an hour... to the freakin USA Border!

Had to cut across the grass to stay in Canada. The border guard said at least 3 people a week do exactly the same thing. Found out later, my gps setting is on fastest route which means going into the USA and speeding across their highway... not our Trans Cda Hwy!

Soaked to the bone, cold and ticked, I made my way back to Thunder Bay and got on the right highway..

Stopped 30 minutes later in Fantasy Falls Kakabeka to fill up at Esso. Meet a lumberjack who confirms I'm on the right road.

Go to start my bike... Nothing! .. The starter is pooched again... No mechanics in town.... It's Victoria Day Monday... Harley won't open until tomorrow!

The lumberjack and the kid from the gas station push my bike until I nearly sucked the life out of them trying to start the bike manually... No luck!

Across the street is Tom and wife Lise Richardson who own the Shell Station.

Lovely people! Tom phones a guy who know a guy who knows Ted - the guy who owns the Harley place in town... He says, If I can get the bike to his shop, he will meet us ther and take it inside for tomorrow...Unbelieveable!

I notice my iPhone has taken on water and is not working all that well.... It too.. may be pooched!


Tom phones CAA for me and 60 minutes later, Albert shows up.

View from Tom's place looking at my bike parked across the street.

Albert arrives.

Turns out he's in training and has to wait for Jim's truck to watch how he hooks me up... We wait out of the rain in Larry's Bait Shop. Larry's a great guy... Tells me all about bait.

Jim arrives.

Albert

Jimmy

Getting the bike on the flatbed was sooo scary... The ramp is lowered and is about 50 degrees incline....

They push me and the 1000 lb bike onto it ... then I have to hold onto it while the bed lifts up on an angle and then straightens... Even though I had the brake on, at times the bike was slipping due to the incline and the rain... Could have lost the bike off the end of the truck! Freakin Scary!

Jimmy takes me to the Harley place... Ted is there... Say's he hopes to get me on the road tomorrow by 10am if all goes well... Gives me his business card and tells me to give it to the people at the Travel Lodge to get a discount and he'll send somebody to pick me up tomorrow to reunite with my bike..

So it's now 1:45.. I'm ok, the bike is in good hands..But!... The LCBO is closed and I have no wine to enjoy tonight while I wait...and you know how I enjoy 1 or 14 glasses of white wine in the evening..lol

Life's still good!... My adventure still continues... Maybe I'll meet someone interesting this evening in the restaurant before I turn in... If I do.. I'll LYK.

Tomorrow: Day 4!

Stay tuned.

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