Here is a photo of these rad kids from Santa Cruz.  We're staying at their friend's house in Vancouver.  We've been eating a lot.  here is a photo of us all eating.
Check out the previous two entries for some photos of my favorite downhill, and also an insane nightmare of a day involving a crackhead bike theif and a lost wallet.
Also, thanks to everyone who left comments.  it's really good to hear from you all.  i miss you.  love,
-jessie

This is a picture of Erik about to go down the most awesome downhill ever.  It was so rad. 

Oh my god today was so crazy. We’re in Vancouver and like we were super exhausted when we got here. Erik and I went food shopping at the Canadian super store, which is kinda like Wal-Mart, and I accidentally left my wallet and the counter, and it never showed up, so I called my dad, and he had to go out on his lunch break and mail me a new atm card. But it came today, so that was good. And like yesterday we were so broke down and tired that all we could do was lay around this house. I was too tired to read, all I did was lie on the floor all day and listen to my ipod.

So today we go downtown to china town, and like Lauren and Chris (these two rad kids from Santa Cruz) and Erik and I all lock our bikes together, but Garry (aka lance Armstrong) locks his up solo. So we get out of the restaurant and Garry’s bike is not there, but there’s this other crappy bike on the ground. Someone clipped his cable and stole his bike. So this crack head guy comes up with a bike with a baby trailer attached to it, and is trying to pick up the crappy bike and balance it on the baby trailer and Lauren and Chris are like yelling at him being like, “man you stole our friends bike” and there are like mom’s with baby twins in strollers trying to get through and the crack head’s bike is falling off of the baby trailer almost on top of the twins and everyone is yelling at this guy, and he’s all, “I didn’t steal your bike. Maybe my friend did though.” And so he leaves his crappy bike and is trying to bike away from us and kernby follows him on his bike. We’re waiting a hella long time and kernby isn’t’ coming back, and we’re getting worried thinking, like maybe kernby tried to play hero and something bad happened to him. So Lauren wants to go to the library, look up his cell phone number from an email and try and call him. We end up at this community center, and Lauren has me stand outside and watch the bikes, and it’s so sketchy. Like we’re in crack head central. I’m standing there by our bikes, and am surrounded by people smoking crack with like vacant eyes and sores and abscesses on their bodies. I’m just trying to be invisible, and then Erik rides up on the bike the crack head left behind, and like we’re just hanging out waiting for Lauren, and then this huge dude starts like looking at us over the top of his sunglasses and pointing and then he’s got some other tweaker dudes with him and starts walking towards Erik and I, and I’m thinking, “oh my god, what’s going to happen.” And he grabs a hold of the crack head’s bike that Erik’s riding and is all, “that’s my bike.” And Erik is like still holding onto it and is all, “look, someone stole my friends bike and this is the one that was left there.” And this huge crack head dude’s like, “that’s my bike.” And his even huger girlfriend was like, “you better give him his bike back.” And Erik’s still holding onto the bike, like talking to them. I’m totally just not saying anything, and then the dude grabs the bike. Finally Lauren comes outa the community center, and we’re all, “we gotta get outa here, this dude just took Erik’s bike” and she’s like, “what! We gotta get it back,” and we’re like, “no, we gotta go.” Lauren thought that it was Erik’s touring bike, not the crack head bike. Anyways we find a payphone and call kernby and he’s like gone back to his house to hook up a trailer and put his folding bike for Garry who now has no bike since the crack head bike got stolen. We’re like panicking and don’t end up meeting kernby but start going to different bike shops to find Garry a bike. We’re looking for bikes and call kernby again, and apparently he gave his cell phone number to the crack head, who stole Garry’s bike, and the guy called him and told him to meet him at the home depot with a hundred dollars and he’d give him the bike. So we’re at this bike shop trying to figure out how to get all of us over there since we’re short a bike, and I’m all, “maybe we should call the police.” And the dudes are like, “no we wanna beat him up.” And Erik’s like, “I’m gonna use the bear mace on him.” And so like I give Garry my bike to ride, and Chris and Erik just like take off, and Lauren puts me on her back rack, which is totally not designed to hold that kinda weight. It’s like this insane ride up and down hills and over potholes and my ass is like slamming into this rack and Lauren is totally just hauling. Anyways, we get to the home depot and Erik and Chris are like, “you won’t believe what just happened.” Apparently there was this cop talking to his girlfriend or something, the crack head rode by on Garry’s bike, looked at the cop, and took off. Chris tried to chase him down, but got cut off by freeway off ramp traffic or something. So we’re just hanging out at home depot, and Lauren uses their phone to call kernby again, and kernby says that the crack head called his phone and he’s go the bike. In a few minutes we see kernby coming into the home depot parking lot, walking with three bikes. There’s his bike, then the trailer with the folding bike in it, and then in his other hand is Garry’s bike. So, Garry ended up losing $100, but got his bike back. But we’re all feeling really crazy right now. Like it was such a bad day just talking to crackheads and seeing if they were selling bikes and what not. Anyways, I’m going to try and stay out of big cities from now on. Also, crackheads suck.



 

hot!

So it's still totally hot! But today Erik and i got up at like 4:30 in the morning to beat the heat, and we got here in pembleton by like 1:00. So not too bad for a 60 mile day. first thing we had a really killer climb out of this river valley. then we had a good down hill, rode along this river and then had this super awesome downhill that lasted for like 8 miles! it was the best downhill of my whole life. it was so steep, but you never had to put on the breaks. We seriously coasted for like 15 minutes. I keep seeing all these dead butterflies on the road. i think maybe it's been so hot that the butterflies are just like dying and falling out of the sky onto the road. i'm trying to upload photos, but it's not working.
-jessie

So check the one before this. i couldn't figure out how to write after puting the photos in. also sorry about all the spelling mistakes. i'm always paying for internet so i figure why waste time with the spell check, right?
So this is a photo of this guy Gary that we're biking with. He's so, so awesome. like he's 71 years old. We decided to start calling him Lance cuz he's wearing the yellow jersey. So we just tell everyone that he's delusional and thinks he's on the tour de france. he think's it's funny.
Here is a picture of "Lance" and the pelleton leaving prince george, bc.

The giant Tide bottle on the back of Lance's bike is a pee bottle. all these guy take bottles into their tent at night so they don't have to get up to pee at night. Gary's is totally the biggest though.
Gross right?
So we're supposed to be in vancouber soon. i can't wait to get out of canada. it's so huge, and like no one lives here. I'll post some more photos of canada after this, but i'm giving up typing cuz the keyboard is all weird. just so you know, all my skin is still burning. I told everyone that we gotta get up at 4:00am tomorrow morning so that we can get as far as possible before the heat sets in.

For a while i was riding around with these moose antlers on my bike, but they were really heavy, and so i had to get rid of them. They were bending my bike rack. Erik's got some photos of me riding the bike with them, but he doesn't have a way to get the photos onto the computer so you can't see them for now. that's garry (aka Lance) next to my bike.





Here is a picture of Erik on the Cassiar Highway. There was a lot of unpaved muddy roads, and it rained a lot.
OK, i'm going to check email now. I hope everyone is doing good. Love,
-Jessie

It's so hot here! i'm going to go totally crazy. we biked like 65 miles today from clinton to lilooet or something and it's like 39-40 degrees celcius. i think that's like 105 or something. I'll try and upload some photos of today, but i'm on dial up so we'll see.
This is a view from the road we came down. it was totally crazy. super dry and like the air actually hurt you. i've never cruised downhill in pain before. Just being in the sun made you feel like all your skin is burning off. it's unreal. we just were going down, and down and down, and it just hurt so bad. Here's a picture of me at the end of the day. And also a picture of Erik. We look super crazy, huh?

Hi all, the bike trip is going great. right now i'm in prince george british colombia and i'm expecting to be in vancouver in like 10 days. i can't wait to get out of canada. canada is huge. 90% of the people who live in canada live along the US border, so we've just been biking through total wilderness forever! We left alaska along the AlCan highway. i guess they built it during world war II because the japanese bombed some of the aluetian islands and they wanted a way to haul stuff to alaska. there is not much along that highway. then we took the cassiar highway and that was even more desolate. just trees and mountains and bears, and so, so many mosquitos! like lethal amounts of mosquitos. Also, there were these black flies and when they bite you, they take a chunk of you with them and blood drips out from where they bit you. here's a picture of what i looked like when one bit my eye.
pretty sweet, huh? The cassiar was really pretty and i got to see a glaciar. The glaciar glowed blue, and i was hitchiking and got picked up by these road mainainance workers and they told me that even when chunks of the glaciar come off, they still glow blue. one of the maintainance workers said he put a chunk of the glaciar in his cooler, and it stayed frozen three times longer than normal ice. glaciars are pretty cool.

The one thing that really sucked about the yukon and also the cassiar highway was that all the food was really expensive and in restaurants portions were small. I ordered french fries in this one restaurant and there was like maybe 15-20 frenchfries and it was $5. It almost made me want to cry. So i'm trying to cook more. but sometimes cooking is disgusting. like for some reason almost everything we make ends up looking like puke. check out this dish.
In here I put, some freeze dried vegetables, some cheese tortelini, a piece of bread, three slices of american cheese, and a package of beef mushroom gravey. looks pretty good, huh? That was a meal i cooked on the cassiar though. now i eat a lot better because we're on the yellow head highway and there are a lot of food stores.
Here is a picture of Erik. Usually i'm biking with him or this other guy Gary. Gary is 71 and is cool. Anyways, there are a lot of people who want to use the internet, so i'm off. love everyone and hope you are all good.
-Jessie
here's a funny picture of him. There are a lot of