Kino at Rob's Palazzo: 3060km - 3088km

A friend at work is housesitting. Nothing special really, except he is housesitting a 3.5M home in West Vancouver. So naturally we had a big bbq and pool party tonight.

The house is insane. The views from every room are gorgeous, the bbq is massive, and there are more bathrooms than you could ever hope to use in a day. It felt a lot like those lotto houses, except two or three of them put together. No complaints. We grilled veggies, steaks, and chicken on a grill the size of my coffee table, and sat around the hottub and outdoor gas fireplace watching the orange moon rise up over the treetops. Great place...gotta go back with my bathing suit. (Wait...do I even HAVE a bathing suit?)


As for the ride in, the only incident was a poorly judged U-turn in a fancy neighbourhood. To save retelling the details, let's just say that Kino and I burst from a rosebush with petals and leaves flying off of us for the next 100m or so. The moral of this story: look through your turns, and not at the object you are trying to avoid.

We left the party around eleven o'clock, with the blue just starting to leave the sky. Nightriding is a little scary, but also so very cool. It's incredible how much that one little headlight can light up an unlit forest road, and how much you can control it. The reflections off my visor (and Kino's chrome) weren't nearly as bad as I thought they would be, and the ride over the Lion's Gate Bridge was just as cool at night as it was during the day. I swear, if it wasn't for the crazy Southbound merge lanes, I could go back and forth on that bridge all day long.