Rainy evening in Prince Rupert .

December 5, 2019

As we were promised by people whom we met on the road, Prince Rupert gave us a nice shower. Despite that we got some delicious Pho at a local restaurant and (!!) a visit at a local thrift store payed with a nice warm sweater for Youn :) So not too bad after all. We chit chatted with owners of that store and they we’ve been living in Prince Rupert for awhile now. They told us some stories about city and why sometimes they have so many Koreans coming for a vacay :)

Next morning we had an early ferry ride to Port Hardy. The weather was quite harsh, strong wind and same rain. Luckily it didn’t affect our ride and ferry left Prince Rupert as scheduled. We arrived in a dark to Port Hardy, luckily we got out of ferry first (motorcycle advantage ;) ) because few mins later all car drivers showed up at the same hotel and had to wait in line, meanwhile we were enjoying hot shower.

Ride to Nanaimo was beautiful! We took a hwy19A and were blessed by views! It’s like driving on Sunshine Coast, but for a longer distance and you can enjoy openness and beautiness by a lifestyle there. If you will ever end up there think of choosing hwy19A :)

Getting closer to Prince Rupert .

November 29, 2019

I remember this hwy 16 part as most challenging due to rain, that never stopped. We saw so many beautiful places along the way. The yellow raincoats helped to keep our spirits up :)

Youn really wanted this photo in front of helicopter ;D

Next stop - Prince Rupert to Port Hardy on a ferry.

Entering hwy 16 .

November 26, 2019

Everything changed when we entered hwy 16. I believe it is well known among local people as it gives quite amazing views! It did feel like we are riding through Rockies, but more with an open scenery. This day we didn’t get much of a rain, but we could see rain clouds going all over the place :)

We were quite exhausted after this long ride and we end up booking a hotel room, because forecast said rain during the night. If you camp or have an experience how tricky and annoying is to pack a wet tent you will be nodding your head and saying ‘smart’ :) I don’t think I have any photos, but we treated ourselves with a nice dinner in a local Japanese restaurant and surprisingly it was quite delicious :)

BC north we are coming .

September 29, 2019

The wind was going north and so we followed it. How many times we travelled outside Canada but my heart stopped when I saw a blog post on Hello BC with beautiful images of hwy 16. I told Youn ‘we have to do this!’ and we did ;) We spent 7 days on our Honda motorcycle and rode over 2000km to Prince Rupert and then back to Vancouver. I could have not imagine better week then those 7 days. We saw bears, heard wolfs hauling, loonies singing, deers licking tree trunk, swam in the lake because it was hot. I only have memories now, but I remember not caring which week day it is and all I knew was our next stop place. All I wanted to do was get onto motorcycle and just ride, follow the wind and see how the shadow changes and guess what time it was :)

We stopped so many times along the way because it was so beautiful! Rain clouds hugging mountains and changing every minute I couldn’t turn off my camera. Just kept taking one photo after another.

After few hours we reached Seton Lake campsite by Lillooet. On the way there we saw a black bear. Little did we know that the next morning we will see one right from our tent. The black bear was 20m away and we had no idea what should we do. Eventually we unpacked bear spray(totally unprepared!!), got our shoes on and slowly got out of the tent and started walking towards other campers with rv’s. We left the bear wonder around and finally he left. My legs were never that shaky before and after that the spray was always hand reach away from us.

Black bear wondering around. You can’t tell but the private houses are like 50m away on the right hand side.

My best buy before trip - Merrell shoes! Never ever got I blisters, always feels like these shoes were made by individual order ;)