Great Breakfast

We were up early and headed off towards Lumby – taking most of the day to arrive as we stop start along the way mainly in search of glue to repair the puncture in the blow up roof bar!

First we stop for a great breakfast at a roadside cafe, we seem to stay there for ever it was so lovely.

Nothing much exciting happened today - although we did pass carnage. The pics show what happens when you go around a corner too fast with your trailer.....!


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Land in Vancouver

We land at Vancouver at around 12noon to a great Canadian Welcome at the Airport from staff at passport control and baggage handlers who make carrying my glider out of the building really easy. Caroline didn’t have such an easy time pushing the loaded up trolley with the 3 large bags and 2meter spares bag.

The hire company would have had kittens if they had seen what was about to go on the roof of the brand new (3k on the clock) PT Chrysler Cruiser!!!!! Blow up roof bars come out of the bag along with glider rider and we head towards Lumby.

We stopped off in Chilliwack for the night at and RV site where our vary small 2 man tent looked somewhat out of place surrounded by the monster RV’s!

Tigger gets High

A long day on the way to Dusseldorf.... The journey to Canada was complicated as we had to drive to Dusseldorf to catch a flight that would take the glider! (The brit airlines will no longer accept hang gliders - if you have golf clubs you are ok).

LTU are a good airline that don't even charge for taking the glider as long as its below 40kg and not much over 4meters when short packed. I managed to get the aeros down to 37kg in a 6kg mylar lined padded bag made by Aeros as a special request and my spares, harness and battens were packed in 2meter bag also made by Aeros (and at short notice).

The flight was 9hours non stop with the most amazing views over Greenland, Iceland and the Rockies. Take off weight was 250 tonnes including 50 tonnes of fuel which we used most of!