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Barnaby Sayce

Barnaby Sayce

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  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler

    Sandon

    May 31, 2022 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

    A little 10 minute dirt ride off 31a from New Denver takes you to an old mining town, burnt down twice and washed away once... there's not much left but a collection of the old buses (some of the first electric powered vehicles in the world), the old train, a few ropey buildings and the oldest working hydro mine in Canada. The town is slowly bring turned into a museum but at the moment it's just 1 room of museum and a lady called Vida selling shitty coffee from a hut.

    Sandon however is pretty cool, all the money from the mine meant the town grew hugely in about 3 years and after the mine was dried out the town basically disappeared 20 years later.

    This was meant to be a half hour stop. Vida talks... it took 2 hours.    Read more

  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler

    Banff, lakes and mountains

    May 28, 2022 in Canada ⋅ 🌙 7 °C

    Spent the day hanging out in Banff, took a little drive out to a few lakes and went up the gondola to get a view of the mountains... everything was bloody massive.

    Last night was music bingo at the hostel, it git very boozy, today's hangover was pretty brutal. Not helped by the fact that someone was fast asleep in my bed when I went up. So had to sleep a couple of hours in the women's dorm and then get up and out at 5.30 before anyone saw me. Early night tonight!Read more

  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler

    Ice Fields

    May 27, 2022 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

    What a day!! Couldn't feel my hands for most of it, it was so bitterly cold! And yet it was exactly what I wanted from Canada (despite the clouds ruining the views).

    Riding from Jasper to Banff takes you through the ice fields and they are pretty incredible, I captured more on my go pro as my hands were too cold to stop and take photos.

    Today I rode with Pat from NZ and we also met Nick early on so we spent the morning riding together. They were basically the 2 most interesting people I've ever met haha. Especially Nick who stil rides his 50 year old Moto Guzzi (120k miles on the clock!) Around the world. My favourite thing about Nick is that he gave me a murray mint haha!

    They were both very prepared and had heated gloves... Pat even had a heated vest... I had a scarf and wanted to cry most of the day.    Read more

  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler

    Ride from Kelowna to Jasper

    May 26, 2022 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

    Thought this would be a cold one... it wasn't 😂 I was far too over dressed!

    Felt amazing to get back out into the mountains though!! I didn't take many photos as I was just enjoying myself.

    Arrived at the hostel and got chatting to a chap from NZ called Pat. He's on an Africa Twin and has riden from alaska down. Tomorrow we're going to ride through the ice fields together. Wahoooo a bike friend!!! 😂😂    Read more

  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler

    Kelowna

    May 25, 2022 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    Nice few days in Kelowna (which I think might be the nicest town in Canada!) Big fancy houses, big lake with beaches, loads of nice bars and breweries!

    Hostel was great, just like a student house really 😂 but really social and good fun for a few nights. A Mexican guy there had a hot space made from the 4th hottest chilli, I tried it... I shouldn't have done, nearly killed me!

    Spent my birthday evening at a bar and got a ton of recommendations for roads and places to see in the mountains, they also had a drum kit set up so the bar staff and I played some tunes (badly) 😂. I went back a couple of nights later for their jam night 😁

    I used my birthday money from mum to hire a jetski for an afternoon on the lake which was incredible! Where else can you jet ski with a view of snowy mountains?!?!    Read more

  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler

    Myra Canyon

    May 23, 2022 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

    With 2 or 3 days in Kelowna to see the city and catch up with Sarah (friend I met in Seattle)... (assuming she still makes it here!) I decided that today should be a walking day followed by a few birthday beers later.

    Jumped on skippy and rode out if kelowna about half an hour, up a little dirt road to a trail that walks along an old railway route.

    It was 12k each way so I decided not to do the whole thing, but still got some amazing views along the way.

    I also tamed a family of chipmunks 🐿    Read more

  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler

    Only went and stumbled upon a rodeo!

    May 22, 2022 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    And that's what happens when you ride aimlessly through Canada... eventually you hit a rodeo, and it was so good... so funny watching all the macho cowboys! 😂😂 lots of white skin... very very limited black skin... and me... with my bright pink skin 😁

    Thats definitely one ticked off the list!! And you really can't ignore how good the views were behind the showground. Definitely found a gem with that one!!!

    102nd Falkland rodeo, at Falkland Stampede.    Read more

  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler

    Ride from Vancouver to Kelowna

    May 21, 2022 in Canada ⋅ 🌙 8 °C

    Felt so good to be back doing a long ride again! About 370 miles but felt like it was done in a second.

    I took route 1 for most the way as I was told route 5 is just boring motorway. And it was a great recommendation!

    Miles of road following the river (and railway) all the way through the hills (not sure they count as mountains). Small towns with churches made of falling apart wood.

    And I even found another group of bikers so it looked like I had friends for a while!! 😂

    Arrived in kelowna around 7pm, git myself some dinner and now watching a film with the hostel crowd.    Read more

  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler

    Very short stop in Vancouver

    May 19, 2022 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C

    Didn't get to see much of vancouver die to needing to sort ongoing bile issues! (Skippys not the messiagh, he's a very naughty boy!) But all sorted now I think, bought a tool called sealmate - just a small stip of plastic that clears the dirt from the seal and all of a sudden no leak!!!!! Wahoooooo!!

    I did manage to get up to Grouse Mountain and Granville Island which was pretty nice.    Read more

  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler
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    Sleepless in Seattle is a real thing

    May 15, 2022 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 13 °C

    Got stuck in Seattle for a week while skippy got new tyres and a service. I was pretty annoyed that I'd be wasting a week and quickly run out of things to do however I've actually met some awesome people, haven't been bored once, drank far too much beer, gone to bed far too late (every night) and had a bloody brilliant time!

    My tyres were incredibly illegal (and dangerous) so glad I caught them before I left Seattle... that could have ended badly! 😳, the bloke at the garage actually called me to say they're the worst he's seen... woops!

    The highlight for me has to be the wall of gum... how does that even start?? Who decided to start always sticking their gum to the same wall?!?! It's so fantastically disgusting!!

    Also, weird coincidence! One of the women in my hostel dorm was born in the John Radcliffe... on the 23rd of May!! Just 2 years apart... weird!

    Now all my hostel friends have checked out and moved on so I'm looking forward to getting back on Skippy, were Canada bound!! Get me back into the mountains!!... oh I've learnt that the mountains are my favourite place in the world... despite being permanently frozen 😁    Read more

  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler

    Lake Serene

    May 12, 2022 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 7 °C

    3.5 miles each way to hike into the snow to see Lake Serene in completely the wrong footware. Getting laughed at a lot by the locals in their snow spikes while I'm slipping and sliding up the mountain with snow up to my knees spending most of my time on my ass 😂 but I refused to give up and got to the top!

    It was amazing! Sitting and eating my lunch next to a huge frozen lake surrounded by mountains as the avalanches fall and echo around the lake like thunder!

    Then slid back down the mountain on my already wet bum 😁    Read more

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    Portland is almost entirely terrible

    May 9, 2022 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 8 °C

    Yep... pretty much hate portland. Every part of it just seems to be run down and covered in litter.

    The motel on night 1 was so bad... so so bad... the hotel for night 2 is better but still pretty bad.

    Found a couple of good bars last night, one being a jazz bar with great pizza so not a completely wasted trip in land. Portland apparently has good coffee so found a couple of coffee shops and the coffee was pretty good to be fair, but the breakfast taco was the real highlight!

    Spent today riding out to some waterfalls a day sorting the registration on my bike, I'm now registered until 2 days before I leave so am stop stressing about that!!!! 😁    Read more

  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler

    More Oregon coast... it got less wet

    May 7, 2022 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 10 °C

    Stayed the night in Newport before riding up the coast to Tillamook (found a cool little diner that did the messiest burgers for lunch) and in to Portland...

    Newport was fun, I spent the night at a tap room with a few people who lived there and then we went to a bar with a pool table so I could beat them all and swagger out the room (I lost most of the games in all honesty)

     This whole coast line really could be Cornwall 😂

    Found some good waterfalls though and bought myself some salt water taffy... don't really know what that is.    Read more

  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler

    Oregon coast...so far

    May 6, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C

    Weeeeeettttttt day today! Everything is soaked... EVERYTHING!!!

    Pretty cool seeing Oregon so far so foggy though (when I could see through the rain on the visor).

    Currently sitting in my motel with everything laid out to dry, I have no doubt it'll still be soaking in the morning, which is fine, because it's going to get wet again tomorrow 😂Read more

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    California Route 36

    May 4, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    What a road!!! It was recomended to me by the hostel owner in LA and although its in completely the wrong direction i thought id try it out and it was sooooooo good!!! 2000 corners across 140 miles, it literally is just corner after corner after corner. Although I was inappropriately clothed in all my winter gear in preparation for the climb to 5000ft... the temperature remained a steady 32 degrees the whole day and I remained a steady level of sweaty and dehydrated the whole day.

    I didn't get many photos of the road as it was kind of ruining the fun of riding it to keep stopping and taking photos.    Read more

  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler

    Route 1 and 101 (North of San Fransisco)

    May 3, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

    Someone needs to tell Big Sur to up its game because the coast seems to get better and better the further north you go! And the sea has an almost Mediterranean blue to it.

    Stopped for lunch in Mendacino which is a nice little town, also got chatting to 4 Irish bikers who have been riding round the world since 2006. They do 2 weeks riding each year and arrange with Honda dealerships to leave their bikes with them (sometimes just fir the cost of a service) and then pick up where they left off the year before! Genius!! So far they've done Europe, Africa, South America and are now doing USA and Canada! Such a good idea 🤔

    Camped last night under the redwoods... seems like a great idea but got eaten alive by mossies!    Read more

  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler
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    Wine Country

    May 2, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

    Awesome stay in a little Airstream on a dairy farm in Wine Country!

    Found a few vineyards that do walk ins... who knew most were appointment only! Had fresh veg to pick for dinner, fresh cheese, fresh eggs for breakfast. Just what I needed after a week of burgers and burritos!

    Lots of miles to cover over the next week or so now as I'm running behind schedule!!    Read more

  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler
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    San Fransisco

    April 28, 2022 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 11 °C

    Loved this city! New favourite US city.

    Last night was spent drinking with Dom the banker, he basically gave me a bourbon tour of the city, so today was a slow day... but I dragged myself out to see the sights. I've also decided that my new favourite hobby isn't sight seeing but sight see-er seeing. Watching people posing for the gram or walking in front of a bus to get their photo is hilarious 😂

    Walked a lot of miles (all either up or down steep hills), Got the ferry over to alcatraz, that was pretty good and importantly didn't get on the bike for a day!    Read more

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    Big Sur

    April 26, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

    Very nice, very windy, kinda cold, very busy... some of it was great, some of it I would liken to the A34 but by the sea.

    Had lunch at a pretty good spot looking over the sea

    Had a great campsite though in Arreyo Seco (apparently means something like dry river) ... it was about a 50 mile detour to get there which I didn't realise but got me away from the coast and into the greenery which was pretty nice. And I nearly ran over a turkey.

    Oh I also saw elephant seals, just stopped for water and happened to stop on a beach covered in them!    Read more

  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler

    Accidently found the best mexican food

    April 25, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    Rode from the middle of nowhere near Sequoia to the middle of nowhere on the coast... 3.5hr ride with pretty much nothing interesting that happened.

    Stole an orange from an orange farm for breakfast, that tasted pretty good.

    Got peppered by a few more pistachio beetles.

    Got to my motel, sorted my washing, tidied up bags etc.

    Then the highlight of the day! Went out to get some food and wondered into a run down looking Mexican place, ordered my food which arrived in a plastic box, and sat there eating it thinking it was pretty much the best meal I'd had the whole time I'd been out here. A quick look at reviews shows that I've accidently walked into the best mexican place in about 50 miles 😁    Read more

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    Sequoia National Park i.e massive trees

    April 24, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C

    Loved Sequoia, super cold up at the top but the trees were massive... like... properly huge! Have a look at the last photo and you'll see a tiny little person at the bottom of the tree! Saw the biggest tree in the world "General Sherman Tree". Not the tallest or the widest but the most amount of tree... not sure how they work that out.

    Also found what can only be the US answer to Stelvio Pass. 10 miles of chicanes and hairpins taking me down from 4500ft to 2500ft and where skippy hit 5000 miles... an emotional day.

    Also turns out Fresno and surrounding miles are just covered in pistachio farms, miles and miles of pistachio farms. Fun fact - Apparently the US grows about 40% of the world pistachios and 99% of those are grown around Fresno. However pistachios apparently come with Pistachio beetles, they hit like bullets, peppering the helmet and jacket until one catches you in the neck and hurts like a bitch!

    Driving back to last nights campsite I found a better one! Right on a lake, looking over mountains (hills) with eagles flying around.    Read more

  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler
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    Yosemite National Park

    April 23, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 6 °C

    Wasn't going to bother with Yosemite due to it being covered in snow and you can't do everything. But after every person I spoke to put it top of their recommendations list I decided to just wrap up warm and do it, and I'm so glad I did!Read more

  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler

    Riding from LA to Fresno

    April 22, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    Looooong day today, got blown about a bit by the wind but the good news is I think my neck might be twice the size after this trip due to all the straining to keep it attached to my shoulders.

    After a nice ride around the hills in LA looking at fancy houses and enjoying the roads and views I started riding up the i5 but severe wind warnings on a section put me off, I wasn't in the mood for getting blown under a truck today. So planned a little detour, not many roads in this part of california so the detour meant adding a good 70 miles onto the route and going back up into the snow (because apparently I can't get enough of the stuff). But my god was it worth it! The road I found was incredible and the views went on for miles!! I'm pretty sure I could see Wallingford at one point 😂. I also spent a good chunk of time up in the clouds which was awesome, you could see the cloud rolling up the hill over the road, very strange... the video kind of shows it but doesn't really do it justice.

    Anyway, checked into my motel, $50 booking was the cheapest I could find. Turns out there's also a non optional $10 hotel services fee (not sure what the $50 was for) plus taxes... I fucking hate taxes... and now my room is $75. So once again I will be filling my bag with everything I can steal, although I am running out of room due to the copious amounts of free shampoo building up... oh and they also take a $200 deposit, which gets refunded at check out but it still gets paid for at check in... so my $50 room has just cost me $275. If I wasn't so tired I'd politely tell them to shove their room so far up their ass they could taste it... but I'm sleepy and everything aches so I made a grumpy huff and paid. Probably even thanked them for being so helpful.    Read more

  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler

    Skippy made it to Hollywood

    April 21, 2022 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 15 °C

    So LA... its an interesting one... I actually really enjoyed it, but mainly due to the hostel and the people I met. The town itself I found very average,walk of fame was so overwhelmingly underwhelming and the Hollywood sign (while better from closer) is nothing to write home about.

    Venice Beach is awesome and has a great vibe to it but is still full of homeless people which is pretty sad to see - I'm seeing this more and more, homelessness and poverty is a massive problem in the states, yes its all relative and obviously poverty here is nowhere near as bad as poverty in other countries, but given the amount of money here it really blows your mind.

    Met some awesome people at the hostel though. Mel, a freelance photographer from New Zealand (what a dude!), Christina, works at the hostel (what a dude!) And Izzy, plays a character called Liv Dingle in Emmerdale (what a dude!). All in all a bloody marvelous time in Hollywood and despite the ridiculous traffic I think skippy had a blast on all the twisties in the hills, and got a day off the big miles!... but back to work tomorrow, 270 miles up to fresno and were heading back into the cold! Yosemite in a couple of days and it's currently -3... who said the states was a good idea!    Read more

  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler
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    Bloody love San Diego

    April 19, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    Loved San Diego, great bars, great beaches, sunshine and lovely people! Only downside is you can't get around without driving it would seem.

    Went to La Jolla Bay and saw so many sea lions!

    Then over to Coronado Island to get a beer and sit on the beach... the sea however was freezing!

    Then bumped into 3 BA Pilots in a bar and spent the evening drinking with them, they took me to the Top Gun bar!!! Hangover hurt the day after.

    Ohhh also found an Automotive museum so had to take a look around!    Read more

  • Barnaby SayceUSA Road tripTraveler

    I'm out of the sand!!!!... for now

    April 18, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

    How good does it feel to be out of the desert?!?! My whole body feels hydrated, the air has a coolness to it, the greenery has never looked greener!

    Found the most incredible road through the hills on my way to San Diego today, I think a combination of feeling so relieved to be out of desert, finally feeling like I wasn't melting, the views and the road as every corner led to an even better one... just made this the most awesome feeling. Put on "You gotta go there to come back" by Stereophonics, did a little happy dance and enjoyed the next half an hour of fun 😁 ... Also didn't take any good photos because I didn't want to stop riding to take them 😂... its all on the go pro though!Read more

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