posted by gavin on Jun 4
Alex and I have landed in Victoria. We’ve met with my second-cousin Tom who lives here with his girlfriend Laura, and they’ve graciously offered to let us stay at their place for a couple of nights.
The flight was early, so we had to wake up at 4AM Halifax time to get to the airport. Add in the 4 hour time difference and 6pm Victoria time feels like 10pm, so we’re both pretty tired. The flights went smoothly. We had a ~2 hour stopover in Edmonton, but it wasn’t too bad. We had lunch (breakfast?) at the Tim Horton’s. I dozed a little bit on both flights – first was 5 hours and the second was an hour and a half.
Alex put his bike and trailer back together first thing, and luckily the packing/handling/unpacking process didn’t cause any problems. We tried visiting a bike shop for a tuneup but they were too busy to take it in, so Alex cleaned it up and did a tuneup of his own.
I think we’re probably going to go to bed pretty early tonight given the long day. Tomorrow we plan on visiting as much of Victoria as we can, and perhaps do the wheel dipping ceremony along the way. The alternate wheel dipping location is Vancouver – we’re heading there on Friday to meet Alex’s second cousin Daniel, who lives in nearby Burnaby.
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