And A Little Bit More

To the Canadian border.

Since some of us had tagged the Mexican border just before the trip started, some of us felt compelled to go on and tag the Canadian border.  I joined up with the California "kids" - Gail and Diane.  I had also done the Mexican border trip with them.  They had several of their friends with them, including Wendy who had previously done the Southern Tier and Atlantic Coast trips with us.  They also had three support vehicles so they gladly took me along.  We drove back to our Sedro-Woolley hotel and started pedaling north from there.  By coincidence we met Judy in the parking lot.  Her husband was driving support for her to do the same thing.  So..... Six of us headed north to the border.  It was a pretty quick trip, since some of the California contingent had a ferry to catch in the afternoon to start a San Juan Islands bike tour.  Just one picture along the way.

Traffic was ugly on Highway 9 for the first 20 miles or so.  After that we got onto the side roads for a much more pleasant experience.  All smiles at the border - Gail, me, Diane and Judy.

While they all got in the cars and headed south, I crossed the border to be picked up by my sister-in-law Elizabeth.  A nice way to end an outstanding trip!

Stats for the day:
63 km / 39 miles from Sedro-Woolley WA to the Canadian border at Sumas
960 feet up
970 feet down

Stats for the entire trip:
3640 km / 2261 miles from Mexico to Canada
132,000 feet of climbing (and descent)
To put that into context - a commercial airliner generally flies at between 30,000 and 40,000 feet above sea level.  We climbed 3 to 4 times that distance - yikes!  I'm going for a massage tomorrow.....