Home a little early

Well here we are back in Canada a little earlier than planned! In retrospect, we should have moved this trip up about 2 or 3 weeks and left in the middle of August but...next time we will know better. And there will be a next time. As it turned out the last week of this trip was a little cool but dry and the colors in Germany were even nicer than at the beginning of our trip. We took our time riding up to Weisbaden from Austria taking some very scenic roads and enjoying our last few days on the other side of the Atlantic.

Returning the bike was easy. As I said before, we bought the bike from a dealer in Maines for 6500 euros and when we return (with the bike in good shape) he bought it back from us for 4500 euros. The owner of the shop had the Euros ready for us the day before we left for Canada, the only hitch was that the Canadian dollar has gotten stronger in comparison to the Euro so we will loose a little $ on the exchange back to Canadian dollars. While we returned the bike we visited with Franz and Sabine in Weisbaden again, aways a good time...see you in Canada!

Now back at home 2 weeks early we are back at Mom and Dads place in Glenrosa busy getting the truck, camper, trailer, bikes...all the toys ready for the trip down south to the Baja.

The colors along the Rhine River were absolutely fantastic.

Oberwessel from the vineyards above.

Even in the rural areas the the tank speeds are kept under control so Kimberley don't even think of speeding and forget about the autoban!

Dropping off the Varedaro, another successful leg of journey finished.

16 hours after leaving Frankfurt we arrived home in Kelowna, thanks Air Canada and Avion.