Completely relate to your distaste for the over complicated world of digitized QR coded “convenience” mate. It’s absolutely not making things any easier at times. Also relate to your appreciation for the freedoms of travelling solo.
The eastern side of WA state is gorgeous! I know I'm not alone when I say this....I'm going to be sad when this series comes to an end. Cheers Sterling! Another great episode.
Campsite Booking - Technology is a wonderful thing, it makes a very simple process frustrating and usually difficult. It assumes that you have the means and the "service" available - usually when camping you have neither (that's the whole point of heading bush to camp - escape the modern world). I agree totally, turn up, fill out a form, put your money in the envelope, pop it in the box and its all done in a couple of minutes. Many times I think "progress" is actually two steps backwards and just exists to give people who don't want to actually work, a pointless desk job. That's why I usually "wild camp" - no administrative BS to deal with. Safe travels 👍
Totally agree, same here in Australia with the national parks, pre-book only no QR codes, no guarantee that the site will be free when you get there or reserved, no phone signal....Pain when you are on a motorcycle and don't know if you are actually going to be at the planned camp site that night. I wild camp too and if I do have to use a national park I camp in the off season, or tell the ranger I will post book when I get home.
When I was a young naive pup, I remember looking forward to personal computers making it much easier to file my taxes, but personal computers were the enabling technology that allowed the Infernal Revenue Service to make taxes much more taxing. Technology has the potential to make our lives much easier, but when bureaucrats manage processes, the complexity increases in excess of the tools we have.
My best friend and I did this Canadian loop, starting in Seattle, back in 1979 when we got out of the military. We had Suzuki 370 thumpers, all we needed when young. My friend just died and we had remained best friends all that time. He left me his Goldwing and I’m thinking of doing that ride again on his old bike, but this time, in comfort.
Kettle Falls!!! Absolutely love that area of NE Washington. Noticed in the fly over at the beginning of the video you were parked in the entrance to the RV park I lived in all last summer while working as an ER nurse in Colville. I thought since staying there that a great ride would be to enter BC through Northport travel up to Nelson and make a big loop around the drainage from the west side of the rockies and east side of the Cascades that creates the Columbia River. I feel your frustration about the cell service there😂😂😂 I even have a selfie from that same viewpoint overlooking the Columbia south of Northport. Realizing you made this trip in 2022 when I was there. Beautiful area to explore. Glad you were able to see it.
Joy! Yes this video brought me joy. I miss the 90’s when I traveled like this on my 86 Honda Shadow. No plans. No destination. No schedule. But memories are what make up life. A life well lived.
I just passed through WA this past week and had issues with camping too. I came to a campsite late and didn't have any data. I had to just camp without going through the system and live dangerously. Great video as always!
Oh ! what a poetic video , you really went all out with the descriptive narration , you sound so happy😁😁 to be heading South again . Thanks for the entertaining video . Pete Western Australia . 😎😎
6:55 Have no idea if the focus was intended this way, but it really enhances the feeling of listening in on a conversation, the speakers being out of focus. I am going to coin this as Awayfromness. I've probably read way too much Marshall McLuhan... Love this Canadian trip series.
some modern ways are great like GPS others like your deal a right pain in the arse. i had a flight attendant take my order on a palm pilot which took 10 mins to enter a G&T, i said "just write it on a notepad in 10 seconds" we remember simplicity and they dont know what it means
Love your episodes. I’ll try to introduce my wife to these as she is supportive of a simpler lifestyle without being trussed up by technology. Cheers Sterling! 😻🎈
Amen, brother, amen!!! The old, simple is way better. Awesome video, Sterling! And welcome to my neck of the woods…I’m so glad you had this experience!
what a great series Ive stumbled upon. I recently entered the ADV bike realm and you have inspired my desire to re explore my own backyard. Cheers from Maple Ridge, BC.
Truly your are an inspiration to us all, I pray someday I will just take off and enjoy a trip with no stress of schedules. Thank you for sharing your time with us.
Hello Sterling, I 100% agree with you on the new way to reserve anything travel related. I do what you do and if I get discouraged while finding camping I go to most excellent hotel I can find, that's how I roll on the road.
The descriptiveness of what you experience when you’re riding, is part of what makes riding a motorcycle as phenomenal as it is. It’s very hard to describe to people that don’t understand, or don’t ride. But you’ve said it very well!
Had to laugh. Your rant on campsite technology vs “The old way”, followed by a burrito and latte while checking the map on your phone. Love your videos!
I watch your videos for many reasons but comedy isn’t one of them. I laughed a few different times during this video. Thanks for taking us all along on such a well done and well documented journey!
wow Noren another fabulous video. Ive got to admit i'm in the same mind frame as you as far as being old school. new tech stuff just complicates things that should be and used to be so simple. also I have to commend you on your astute awareness and capable ability of fantastic grammatical word smithing , its awesome. so glad your drone is as tough as you keep that little bird healthy. thanks again for sharing.
Yet more beauty in sound and vision 😊 …. Have to agree with you regarding modern technology, some great useful technology but some bloody frustrating stuff like you found at the campsite!! 😆
Till now I thought the Port Alice episode was the best, but this episode is great! Kind of quirky I love the way you jump from scene to scene, best yet!
Wow! What a gorgeous ride! And the drone shots are just awesome. Sometimes it just all comes together for that perfect, perfect day. Remember the night where you got et by skeeters? You had to come through that to get to this. That’s how it works. Enjoy the blessed day. We don’t deserve even one of them, but our Maker gifts them to us anyway.😃
My wife and I are enjoying your adventure travels especially the Arizona through Canada. As a photographer and motorcyclist, I appreciate the effort it takes to capture the elements of your trip and you are doing it extremely well even though you may think it is not up to the standard you aspire to. Keep up the good work and ride safe.
Traveled through Kettle Falls many times and over Sherman Pass. Usually ride the Cascade highway after Labor Day. Head to Anacortes and to the San Juan islands.
Interesting point about the camp reservations. In BC, as I live on Vancouver Island, they have had massive issues with people and businesses buying up camping spots and they using them for promotions through their companies. So then the average person cannot find a camping spot for themselves and their families. So I am 100% in a greement with technology is a bad thing when it comes to something such as this. Keep it simple and you register when you are there, not through an app or website.
Every one of these episodes is a gem. Thank you! I completely sympathize with your complaints about reserved campsites and the absurdity of scanning a QR code and entering a credit card to get a campsite. I first encountered this mentality when camping in Yosemite Valley in the late 80s. They sold reservations through Ticketron, as if Yosemite was a concert or theme park. Friends and I would rock climb in the Red River Gorge in the Daniel Boone National Forest throughout the 80s, but now, The Gorge is all pay camping. I don't go on a travel adventure for hassles like this. Half an hour spent jumping through the digital hoops at the end of the day to have a place to sleep ruins the entire experience. This is why more people are stealth camping. I'd have probably camped beneath those two bridges. 🙂 If I was launching a drone, I'd hold it over my head to avoid any propeller parts it may decide to eject when spinning up to speed, and that's doubly true of a crashed drone with visibly chipped blades. A carbon fiber blade in your eye in the middle of nowhere would be some seriously bad juju. Thank you for inspiring me to take my own admittedly much more modest adventures. Inertia and lack of mojo is increasingly a problem with age. So many of us work all our lives looking forward to having the time and money to do things when we retire, but by the time we retire with the time and money, we don't have the health and energy.
Well done - certainly appreciate your work - glad you enjoyed bc - the stories you've shared do restore one's faith in humanity - keep on trucking ,um biking , travelling...going ; bravo 👏
Gorgeous scenery. I'm with you on the whole electronic world we've been thrust into. I went to ride the lift ride at park city with my mtb, and same thing with whole qr scan deal while waiting in line before you get on the lift. Maybe we are getting too old, none of the kids seemed to mind or have any problems as I did, lol.
A true adventure rider never said truer words....beaten, battered and keep on rolling...always something when traveling never fails - part of the program!!!!....always enjoyable!!!!
Sterling, I have been a passenger with you for many of your trips and tours. This episode, number 24 of your trip to Western Canada is, to my mind, your finest work. Beautifully done.
The motorcycle gods have smiled down on you in Washington. No reservations and a destination with great backroads always makes the best moto adventure. Ride safe Ride free friend.
Hey, what a great video. Really magical. We are all created by God with his idea in mind for a special purpose. You must have been created to share the beauty of this beautiful planet. Thank you
PITA. Almost all Nat'L Parks are pay reserve in advance even to ride thru. Sucks North was a good idea. I worked that area several times, beautiful. All to yourself on the road. Very diverse state. Good vid enjoyed. beautiful ride.
Serendipity and coincidences, I had just finished watching Nick Zentner's intro on the geology of the Columbia River gorge when this video showed up. What a lovely road through beautiful scenery.
If you go west just one hour from that Davenport motel is the largest power plant in North America, a huge dam on the Columbia. Worth checking out. Then if you go South to Dry Falls, that land was carved by ancient glacial floods. Nice desert scenery.
You are such a marvel. Your narration is getting even better and deeper each episode and you give so much to resonate it is a great source of inspiration
Absolutely stunning footage today. The colors just seemed to be deeper and more vivid here. P.S. I'm with you on all this tech where tech is not needed.
We have a secret paradise here in Eastern Washington, specifically the areas you featured. Open roads, mixed geography, clean air... I know you experienced some amazing country on that route to Davenport. Thank you for not giving away all the secrets. I hope you come this way again. Look me up when you do. You could spend an entire summer wandering here in complete bliss. 🤫
Campsite = typical USA bureaucracy. The way governments and politicians treat, citizens, make laws is horrible. I think they should vote themselves a pay raise
Pretty cool stuff, I have family right up where this is filmed. If anyone reading wants to take a fantastic loop ride up in this area, when you ride up to Northport along the Columbia, leave out the back side of Northport on Aladdin road and get onto Smackout Pass (Dirt) you will come out behind Ione and can ride along the Pend Oreille River. North takes you to Boundary Damn (filming site of "the Postman" head east over the mountains by Sullivan lake and you can find your way to Priest Lake in Idaho, or south down to I 90 corridor/Spokane.
Sympathetic camp hosts can be very understanding- we were unable to get the online reservation to work on a recent BDR trip and the hosts acknowledged the difficulties and said take any site and deal with it in the AM. Gracious.
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Completely relate to your distaste for the over complicated world of digitized QR coded “convenience” mate. It’s absolutely not making things any easier at times. Also relate to your appreciation for the freedoms of travelling solo.
The eastern side of WA state is gorgeous! I know I'm not alone when I say this....I'm going to be sad when this series comes to an end. Cheers Sterling! Another great episode.
“I have the freedom to travel.” Preach, brother. (As usual your cinematography is a cut above everything else.)
Campsite Booking - Technology is a wonderful thing, it makes a very simple process frustrating and usually difficult. It assumes that you have the means and the "service" available - usually when camping you have neither (that's the whole point of heading bush to camp - escape the modern world). I agree totally, turn up, fill out a form, put your money in the envelope, pop it in the box and its all done in a couple of minutes. Many times I think "progress" is actually two steps backwards and just exists to give people who don't want to actually work, a pointless desk job. That's why I usually "wild camp" - no administrative BS to deal with. Safe travels 👍
Totally agree, same here in Australia with the national parks, pre-book only no QR codes, no guarantee that the site will be free when you get there or reserved, no phone signal....Pain when you are on a motorcycle and don't know if you are actually going to be at the planned camp site that night. I wild camp too and if I do have to use a national park I camp in the off season, or tell the ranger I will post book when I get home.
When I was a young naive pup, I remember looking forward to personal computers making it much easier to file my taxes, but personal computers were the enabling technology that allowed the Infernal Revenue Service to make taxes much more taxing. Technology has the potential to make our lives much easier, but when bureaucrats manage processes, the complexity increases in excess of the tools we have.
My best friend and I did this Canadian loop, starting in Seattle, back in 1979 when we got out of the military. We had Suzuki 370 thumpers, all we needed when young. My friend just died and we had remained best friends all that time. He left me his Goldwing and I’m thinking of doing that ride again on his old bike, but this time, in comfort.
Use a headlamp. They are great.
In this video … you got your MoJo back!!!!!!!
Your film making skills have always been epic. Thank you for creating the honest beauty of it all as well and the poetry and the humour. 😂❤ Respect 🙌
Charles Bukowskisk, FN Love the free flow of thoughts and emotions...
Yes!
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The delirium in your voice at the beginning.. was waiting to hear Herzog chime in with his witty assessment.
Glad you stayed strong and inspired
Great video thank you very well done thanks for taking us along cheers to ya.
I do think the longer you're on the road the more and more your inner motopoet comes out...excellent video and Commentary as always, thx Sterling
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Kettle Falls!!! Absolutely love that area of NE Washington. Noticed in the fly over at the beginning of the video you were parked in the entrance to the RV park I lived in all last summer while working as an ER nurse in Colville. I thought since staying there that a great ride would be to enter BC through Northport travel up to Nelson and make a big loop around the drainage from the west side of the rockies and east side of the Cascades that creates the Columbia River. I feel your frustration about the cell service there😂😂😂 I even have a selfie from that same viewpoint overlooking the Columbia south of Northport. Realizing you made this trip in 2022 when I was there. Beautiful area to explore. Glad you were able to see it.
Maybe your best video..ever! It is evident you are having more fun and relaxed than a few episodes ago.
Joy! Yes this video brought me joy. I miss the 90’s when I traveled like this on my 86 Honda Shadow. No plans. No destination. No schedule.
But memories are what make up life. A life well lived.
I just passed through WA this past week and had issues with camping too. I came to a campsite late and didn't have any data. I had to just camp without going through the system and live dangerously. Great video as always!
Oh ! what a poetic video , you really went all out with the descriptive narration , you sound so happy😁😁 to be heading South again . Thanks for the entertaining video . Pete Western Australia . 😎😎
6:55 Have no idea if the focus was intended this way, but it really enhances the feeling of listening in on a conversation, the speakers being out of focus. I am going to coin this as Awayfromness. I've probably read way too much Marshall McLuhan...
Love this Canadian trip series.
some modern ways are great like GPS others like your deal a right pain in the arse. i had a flight attendant take my order on a palm pilot which took 10 mins to enter a G&T, i said "just write it on a notepad in 10 seconds"
we remember simplicity and they dont know what it means
Love your episodes. I’ll try to introduce my wife to these as she is supportive of a simpler lifestyle without being trussed up by technology. Cheers Sterling! 😻🎈
Amen, brother, amen!!! The old, simple is way better. Awesome video, Sterling! And welcome to my neck of the woods…I’m so glad you had this experience!
what a great series Ive stumbled upon. I recently entered the ADV bike realm and you have inspired my desire to re explore my own backyard. Cheers from Maple Ridge, BC.
Awesome...i love, love, love the editing and footage at 18:04. Thanks again Sterling. All the best from Canada
Truly your are an inspiration to us all, I pray someday I will just take off and enjoy a trip with no stress of schedules. Thank you for sharing your time with us.
And the poetry is growing in your videos and it is a great touch
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Hello Sterling, I 100% agree with you on the new way to reserve anything travel related. I do what you do and if I get discouraged while finding camping I go to most excellent hotel I can find, that's how I roll on the road.
"Find joy in the journey" Everywhere you go!
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Your videos help inspire me to take a trip on my bike, thanks!
Beautyful impressions again. Thanx Sterl.!
Thanks so much for all you good videos . 🎉 A hello from my tiny France .✋
Love this journey, visual treats and inspiring narration; On The Road meets Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance 👍
The descriptiveness of what you experience when you’re riding, is part of what makes riding a motorcycle as phenomenal as it is. It’s very hard to describe to people that don’t understand, or don’t ride. But you’ve said it very well!
Both visually and philosophically entertaining! Could be your best! Thanks for putting yourself out there!
Had to laugh. Your rant on campsite technology vs “The old way”, followed by a burrito and latte while checking the map on your phone. Love your videos!
One of my favorites from the series. Thanks for the entertainment. Great views. And loved the personality in this.
Glad you enjoyed it!
“The rhythm of the road”…. Great comment becoming one with the bike and environment. Top notch.
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I imagined Eva back home, monitoring your progress. NORTH?!? You're not even trying to get home, Sterling! 😛
That coffee shop in Kettle Falls is a great stop for a bite, good coffee too.
great scenery good video. safe ridin rubber down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
such great cinematography - so well done.💙
Great choice of music for this video. I love the wheat field videos
I watch your videos for many reasons but comedy isn’t one of them. I laughed a few different times during this video. Thanks for taking us all along on such a well done and well documented journey!
12:49 Such a perfect transition of words and the drone says “ hold my beer”
What a great video! Love to see you happy and content!
wow Noren another fabulous video. Ive got to admit i'm in the same mind frame as you as far as being old school. new tech stuff just complicates things that should be and used to be so simple. also I have to commend you on your astute awareness and capable ability of fantastic grammatical word smithing , its awesome. so glad your drone is as tough as you keep that little bird healthy. thanks again for sharing.
Enjoying your video’s, don’t really know why, but I think I can relate with your attitude. Be safe.
Yet more beauty in sound and vision 😊 …. Have to agree with you regarding modern technology, some great useful technology but some bloody frustrating stuff like you found at the campsite!! 😆
Till now I thought the Port Alice episode was the best, but this episode is great! Kind of quirky I love the way you jump from scene to scene, best yet!
Another great one, thanks Sterling.
"Lumbering down the road" 😂
Your done work is amazing. Thank you so much.
Amazing amazing. Amazing video you’re the man.
Such poetry in motion.
Wow! What a gorgeous ride! And the drone shots are just awesome. Sometimes it just all comes together for that perfect, perfect day. Remember the night where you got et by skeeters? You had to come through that to get to this. That’s how it works. Enjoy the blessed day. We don’t deserve even one of them, but our Maker gifts them to us anyway.😃
My wife and I are enjoying your adventure travels especially the Arizona through Canada. As a photographer and motorcyclist, I appreciate the effort it takes to capture the elements of your trip and you are doing it extremely well even though you may think it is not up to the standard you aspire to. Keep up the good work and ride safe.
Traveled through Kettle Falls many times and over Sherman Pass. Usually ride the Cascade highway after Labor Day. Head to Anacortes and to the San Juan islands.
Interesting point about the camp reservations. In BC, as I live on Vancouver Island, they have had massive issues with people and businesses buying up camping spots and they using them for promotions through their companies. So then the average person cannot find a camping spot for themselves and their families.
So I am 100% in a greement with technology is a bad thing when it comes to something such as this. Keep it simple and you register when you are there, not through an app or website.
Every one of these episodes is a gem. Thank you!
I completely sympathize with your complaints about reserved campsites and the absurdity of scanning a QR code and entering a credit card to get a campsite. I first encountered this mentality when camping in Yosemite Valley in the late 80s. They sold reservations through Ticketron, as if Yosemite was a concert or theme park. Friends and I would rock climb in the Red River Gorge in the Daniel Boone National Forest throughout the 80s, but now, The Gorge is all pay camping. I don't go on a travel adventure for hassles like this. Half an hour spent jumping through the digital hoops at the end of the day to have a place to sleep ruins the entire experience. This is why more people are stealth camping. I'd have probably camped beneath those two bridges. 🙂
If I was launching a drone, I'd hold it over my head to avoid any propeller parts it may decide to eject when spinning up to speed, and that's doubly true of a crashed drone with visibly chipped blades. A carbon fiber blade in your eye in the middle of nowhere would be some seriously bad juju.
Thank you for inspiring me to take my own admittedly much more modest adventures. Inertia and lack of mojo is increasingly a problem with age. So many of us work all our lives looking forward to having the time and money to do things when we retire, but by the time we retire with the time and money, we don't have the health and energy.
Well done - certainly appreciate your work - glad you enjoyed bc - the stories you've shared do restore one's faith in humanity - keep on trucking ,um biking , travelling...going ; bravo 👏
Those awesome drone shots really life your production to a whole other level ! Fantastic episode, once again.
Gorgeous scenery. I'm with you on the whole electronic world we've been thrust into. I went to ride the lift ride at park city with my mtb, and same thing with whole qr scan deal while waiting in line before you get on the lift. Maybe we are getting too old, none of the kids seemed to mind or have any problems as I did, lol.
Had to go back and watch again. 8:42 - 10:05 IS PRICELESS!
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I think this was the best one yet, both visually and commentary wise! Very very enjoyable.
Awesome drone shots!
A true adventure rider never said truer words....beaten, battered and keep on rolling...always something when traveling never fails - part of the program!!!!....always enjoyable!!!!
Sterling, I have been a passenger with you for many of your trips and tours. This episode, number 24 of your trip to Western Canada is, to my mind, your finest work. Beautifully done.
The motorcycle gods have smiled down on you in Washington. No reservations and a destination with great backroads always makes the best moto adventure. Ride safe Ride free friend.
Good ad for the tough little drone.
Hey, what a great video. Really magical. We are all created by God with his idea in mind for a special purpose. You must have been created to share the beauty of this beautiful planet. Thank you
Had the same experience on my bike-camp trip. Everything done through the app (and tracking). It’s a brave new world…
Fantastic video well done
PITA. Almost all Nat'L Parks are pay reserve in advance even to ride thru. Sucks North was a good idea. I worked that area several times, beautiful. All to yourself on the road. Very diverse state. Good vid enjoyed. beautiful ride.
Wonderful experience keep going buddy ✌🏾
Hey Sterling did you cross at Grandforks? I agree life is getting more complicated. Even the simple ack of camping.
Epic trip coming to an end. Almost loved all your videos ❤ thankyou for filming out world for us☺️ I appreciate your work...❤👍
I feel your pain with the booking system
It’s just about the same situation down here in Australia 😩
Serendipity and coincidences, I had just finished watching Nick Zentner's intro on the geology of the Columbia River gorge when this video showed up. What a lovely road through beautiful scenery.
LOL!!!!
“Where I had perhaps the most simplistic dinner so far . . some Pringles and Beef Jerky”
Absolutely loved that line!
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Sometimes the old ways were a lot simpler.... sometimes the new ways just suck... haha
Safe travels
If you go west just one hour from that Davenport motel is the largest power plant in North America, a huge dam on the Columbia. Worth checking out. Then if you go South to Dry Falls, that land was carved by ancient glacial floods. Nice desert scenery.
Wow, like your stories of the trials and tribulations of your journey. Thanks from Seattle.
Yes I agree with you regarding new technology and how payment was made. I really miss the old ways. Regards South Africa
Beautiful images.
Solo trips-not all comfortable with it, but many more options throughout your day.
18:07 - pure poetry.
You are such a marvel. Your narration is getting even better and deeper each episode and you give so much to resonate it is a great source of inspiration
Another top video and breath taking drone shots.
Absolutely stunning footage today. The colors just seemed to be deeper and more vivid here. P.S. I'm with you on all this tech where tech is not needed.
Enjoyed this episode just like all your videos Sterling.
Really feel connected with you and your travels❤
We have a secret paradise here in Eastern Washington, specifically the areas you featured. Open roads, mixed geography, clean air... I know you experienced some amazing country on that route to Davenport. Thank you for not giving away all the secrets. I hope you come this way again. Look me up when you do. You could spend an entire summer wandering here in complete bliss. 🤫
There’s still blueberry farms in west Michigan!
Was fixated on the amount of adjectives lol Loved it
Campsite = typical USA bureaucracy. The way governments and politicians treat, citizens, make laws is horrible. I think they should vote themselves a pay raise
Your a pro I am always trying to get off bike by night fall did you have trouble during day I agree new way is pain in butt
outstanding !!
Pretty cool stuff, I have family right up where this is filmed. If anyone reading wants to take a fantastic loop ride up in this area, when you ride up to Northport along the Columbia, leave out the back side of Northport on Aladdin road and get onto Smackout Pass (Dirt) you will come out behind Ione and can ride along the Pend Oreille River. North takes you to Boundary Damn (filming site of "the Postman" head east over the mountains by Sullivan lake and you can find your way to Priest Lake in Idaho, or south down to I 90 corridor/Spokane.
Beautiful
Those moments is what we crave for as motorcyclists. Thank's for sharing🙂
Beef jerky and a snickers bar……dinner & desert. 😊 The motorcycle gods giveth and they taketh away. 😂
Hah! Put a QR code in an area with no cell service. Sounds about right.
Sympathetic camp hosts can be very understanding- we were unable to get the online reservation to work on a recent BDR trip and the hosts acknowledged the difficulties and said take any site and deal with it in the AM. Gracious.
Computer campsite booking for first come first served is a pain in the ass.