Finnish Curve Cowboys

Wednesday was a very exciting day! Despite my fears everything went smoothly. My driver's licence was at DHL as we visited them on the way to Calgary airport to see if the bikes had arrived. They had arrived! After some waiting and a visit to the Canadian Customs office we got to strip the bikes and see if any damage was done. I was a bit concerned about the straps that were pulled over my Russell leather seat as there were pretty bad marks on the seat. However, looks like the upholstery is going to be normal after a while.



We thanked Roy for his enormous help and hospitality and said goodbye and headed for Banff. Fisrt thing we had to visit the gas station, though and there was our first problem: Esso pumps said 89 and 91 octane. What...are we in Russia? There I have seen such octane readings the last time. I called Roy and he advised to use the 91 octane. Obviously the method of determing the octane reading must be different on this side of the pond as our gas in Finland is minimum 95 octane and 98 is the "Super". After calling Roy once more things cleared out: let's use the 91 octane.



Anyway, we headed for Banff and had lunch there. Magnificient scenery on the way! From Banff we continued to Radium Hot Springs and the whole journey Jouko and myself were most of the time just totally speechless of the beauty of the landscape. Although we have a lot of forests in Finland but we do not have the mountains.






This time I managed to attach some pictures to this blog which hopefully makes this more interesting.