When I was 14, I flew "standby" (which was an adventure all by itself) to Calgary to spend... a month? with my brother Gary, visit brother Michael in Edmonton, and go on a biiiig motorcycle adventure.
Gary had outfitted his Honda 550 Four with saddlebags and tenting gear and we travelled about 4000km to Drumheller, Edmonton, Jasper, Yellow Head Highway, Prince Rupert, ferry to Kelsey Bay, across Vancouver Island, and then back across the Okanagan and Banff.
I don't remember know two people and all that gear fit on the tiny motorcycle but this kind of hypereffient use of space is one of Gary's skills. I do remember our evening routine: he'd drop me and the saddlebags off at the campsite and get groceries while I made camp. I also don't know how Gary tolerated a petulant teen Dan for a month.
I have some very good memories and these photos, probably taken with Gary's tiny Olympus Pen camera with the slide-out lens.
These are the photos from that trip; a quarter century later, I reproduced it as part of a month-long trans Canada trip; the photos from that, are here.
The photos were taken with Gary's tiny Rollei 35, a tiny tiny 35mm camera with a collapsible lens.
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