Three years ago tomorrow, Rowan and I were camping just outside Jasper. We got up early in the morning and rode a century (100 miles), finished around 4:30 pm, and relaxed for about half an hour before my parents and cousin (Mayor of Banff and Marriage Celebrant) and his wife arrived. About half an hour later we had changed into somewhat dressier clothing and were standing on a dock in Lake Annette saying our vows.

Tomorrow, we celebrate our third anniversary!

This year, we are doing a mini cycling tour of Vancouver Island and enjoying it very much so far. Today (Day 2 of the tour) was a great day! We took a ferry from Brentwood Bay across to Mill Bay, stopped for lunch and a little look around, then cycled up to Cowichan Bay. That's a really nice route with glimpses of the ocean, low mountains, rolling hills and fields. The small road, with very little traffic, was surrounded by trees of all different colours - lots of green, a few deep red leaves, and a hint of gold as the leaves begin to change for autumn. Very pretty.

In Cowichan Bay we stopped to take a look at a small wooden boat museum where Rowan was very tempted by a sailboat. We stopped to sit on a bench by the bay for a while, and then continued on into Duncan. After a short break, we checked out the totem poles and took lots of photos. Total km for today ... 44.98.


(Last Sunday we rode our August century ... so that was kind of our anniversary century.)


BTW - for those who might not know ... Rowan and I "met" on Bikeforums in early 2003. And then met in person in France on the 2003 PBP.