Lotsa room for tenting, two bedrooms and a hottub. Some neat rides, with a two day extension up to Whistler, Lilloet, Cache Creek, Princeton and Hope.

I will try to better last time's events! If anyone wants to fly in, there is an extra XS11 here to ride! Rally updates on a speculation basis as we progress! Everybody's welcome...it should be a blast!!

Big Island "Deuce" discussion can be found on the XS11 list at Yahoogroups. If you don't yet have a Yahoo account (free) you'll have to register to join the group.

Gruppe: Idenum, subject to change, eh!

August 1: Get together, tent spots, (Denny and Glenna already have "big" bed room), steak dinner, (2 for one, @ 10.00 Canadian $), at the pub, easy ride home.("canned" music, with Bare Naked ladies!, (just a Canadian group, you silly,eh!)

August 2.:(fri) The "infamous" Johnny Yukon run, but no "blow jobs", on fuel tanks! Gas up in Sooke, (no gas out there), "major twisties", at a conservative pace,(Mary's riding with us!!!!!), Incredible Fish and chip or ? lunch at Renfrew, with side trip to "incredible ocean"site, if you are not hungry, regroup, twisties back, fuel up in Sooke, out through Mechosin, onto Island Hwy, home to sids. Salmon and "other" BBQ et al! Brews, tub, chairs, brews, snacks, tub, snacks, chairs, brews, ...ooooh what the Hell!

August 3: Early morning coffee and buns, on the road by 6:oo AM, B-fast at Courtenay, (90 minutes on the "slab"), up the "new" slab to Campbell River,(take Tom V as a hostage!!!), out to Gold river, and Muchalet sound, lunch, back to Campbell River, depending on time, "slow" way or "fast" way home, (maybe break into pods?) Salmon, and Chicken BBQ, hot tub, "suds", "Z's"!

August 4: Early morning "buns", and ? 6:00 AM leave, "kewl" ride to Pt Alberni, "slow" ride to "crossing" at Lakes end, then "balls to the walls", through the pass to the junction! (your discretion!!) Art museum, pub tour, 1 hour "overstay", leave, stop at Long beach, walk in the surf, go to Whale museum, ridr quick, but not "stoooopid", back to Port Alberni. Gas up, over the pass, hit Island H-way, home to Restaurant supper?

August 5: Either pack your tent up, or stay, as a group, catch BC ferry to Horseshoe bay, (7:00AM), Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton, over the pass, (oooooohhhh), to Lilloette, lunch?, over the next twisty pass to Cache Creek, Beer time, or?, Twenty KM East to the Phil Murphy/C Hook "found" campsite, and????? (dinner back at Cache, or?). Sleep over, (no tent, do Cache Creek @ motels there.

August 6: Leave river site @ 8:00, (your in the mountains, it is cold next to the river, and there is no sun yet!!!) Ride to Kamloops, East to Vernon cut off, Vernon, south to Kelowna, Penticton, (all will prolly be in the 90's F), LUNCH, by the lake, or? South through "Hot temps", to Osoyoos, (those who need to "split" for home here can). West through the Richter pass to Keremeous, to Princeton, (fuel and suds or food stop), Totalride through the mountains, over the pass to Hope, and the freeway to the Ferry back to Home, or as a final "breakaway", to our friends to the South! (Go back through truck customs at any crossing, faster!!)

August 7: "left -overs" ride to Campbell River, ferry to Quadra Island, and Cortez Island, lunch and home, eh? Ahwubuyaahdubyuwwah, thats all folks! SQUID! (program subject to change by "informed" input. Thanks for your patience, and time!!

Thanks,

Sid Clarke
sclarke@nisa.net

See the Big Island 2000 rally page for more information on Ladysmith, Vancouver Island, and British Columbia.