Open road through the Yukon

On Two Wheels, For Better, For Worse

Two old fools, one bicycle, one motorcycle, and a marriage tested by every continent in between.

our story starts in Canada 2014

  • Giving Up On Retirement

    A career change announced: Clif is now the Sheriff of Nowhere Town, and Susan the floosie at the local saloon.

  • Onto Cache Creek

    A sunny climb up Jackass Mountain to Lytton, then 196km from Hope brings them to a Cache Creek campsite named Brookside — which, disappointingly, contains not a single former Brookside…

  • Beyond Hope

    A full day of rain through the Fraser Canyon ends in Boston Bar, where an ‘underground chef’ from Vancouver has turned a rundown motel on a bypassed highway into a…

  • Another Biker

    How every Harley rider should look.

  • Goodnight Bike

    Susan’s ruling on the bike sharing the motel room for the night: bedroom, yes. Bed, absolutely not.

  • Mission To Hope

    A big, butch neighbour walks his cat on a leash at the campsite, a lone llama turns up in a roadside field, and 150-carriage cargo trains rumble past blueberry farms…

  • Nanaimo To Mission

    A near-miss with a Warm Showers host outside North Vancouver leads instead to a spontaneous overnight with strangers Jim and Rhoda — a bottle of Glenfiddich, a Thai curry, and…

  • On Highway 1

    A quiet snapshot from Highway 1 — no words needed.