We arrived in Vancouver late afternoon yesterday after an uneventful ride from Puyallup, just south of Seattle. The boarder crossing was relatively short and painless, although the tiny young lady in the Canadian customs booth was surprisingly intense and asked more questions than I expected. I guess when you have stamps for Russia and Kazakhstan in your visa things get ramped up a bit.
This view from our hostel room shows how close we are to the street - and we are on the bus route that apparently runs 24/7.
My street.
Will have to check this out.
Down Seymour from our hostel.
We dropped the bikes at Pacific Motosports for crating and took a taxi to our hostel in downtown Vancouver. We have a great location on Seymour not far from Gastown. My first time in Vancouver and I must say so far I'm impressed. We had a couple of pitchers of Molson and found a good sushi place for dinner. There is certainly no shortage of sushi options here. We must have walked by a half dozen in a couple of blocks before settling on the most crowded one we saw.
Our hostel is pretty cool, but also very hot - like stupid, crazy, dripping sweat hot! Sleeping last night was next to impossible as the window had to be left open to barely get some airflow. There is a pretty significant heat wave going on in the Pacific Northwest right now. We are on the second floor over a busy street and two bars so the street noise was endless. Need to stay out later the next three nights to avoid the room as long as possible. Maybe also buy a box fan to get some airflow into the room.
Looking forward to exploring much more of Vancouver over the next three days as we go through the crating and prep for shipping process. Today we need to go back to Pacific to pay when they finish crating and then Friday to LEI, our shipper, for final inspection of the bikes. Motorcycles are considered "dangerous goods" in the airfreight business so the process is a bit intense. All together it will be about $2k per bike to crate and ship to Seoul. We will then have customs fees of about $300 each to clear the bikes in S. Korea.
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