Day 44 (actually 43) to Vancouver - Spring Chickens are Home!

A sunny day, an easy ride, until we reached the border.   Today is Sunday, June 11th and the Douglas Crossing is closed until 5:00 p.m. for a "Hands Across The Border Celebration".  We are stopped on I - 5, a few miles away.

We decided to take an early exit from the interstate as soon as we could and found our way on back streets to the truck border crossing.  We originally overshot it so we were able to turn into the line-up on a side street from the east and were through in about 40 minutes.  Possibly, because of the long lines, the border questions were short and quick.   

At the beginning of the trip, I was talking to Julie about a situation and I described the people in the story as "no spring chickens".  It was an expression Julie had not heard before.  Throughout the trip, Julie would comment on Spring Chickens - being slow in front of us or following us or just showing up in so many places that we were going.   We even had a huge busload of  Spring Chickens take over our hotel and breakfast room one day.   We would watch Spring Chickens do things that we would never do. 

Before I dropped her off in Richmond, Julie asked me to let everyone know that we, two Spring Chickens, made it home safely.