Time with Tazzie and her Road Test!

After the day was done Comox stopped to relax and decided we couldn't wait to ride later with the gang as we had done 500 miles in 2 days. Riding fools we are.


Tuesday the Day she was to do her road test. I gave her the vest with S.I.U.P. patch on it. Didn't realize that later that day it was going to have some significance to it. We were just getting ready to Slay Gold River, and hour ride on a windy twistie road in the mountain north of Campbell River. She is looking very happy and she was, along with a little nervousness.



Grizz picked these Guys up from Victoria, they are from California, I can't remember any of their names or should I say who is who. I met Bill, the guy on the right on my forum. I was trying to plan a little Conga from Victoria to CR. Grizz and Ripper, got them to Parksville, where Taz and I met up and escorted them to CR. They were thrilled to have escorts especially out of Victoria. For me it was not only a nice ride, but a little pay back of strangers helping strangers. Crikey am I short or what???


There's Tazzie my girl, that little newbie, fits right in.

I spent 4 days with Tazzie, taking here here there and everywhere. As she was to do her road test on Tuesday. She wanted all the practise she could get so she could ace the test that we were all positive she was going to do.
So we did the ride into PA, and after the girl BFZ weekend and the RLAP excercises, we decided she would come spend a couple days with me.

Monday morning, there was some Californians coming to the Island for the first time, and they contacted me throught the forum. Beings as I just traveled across the USA, with total strangers, I wanted to give back and help these guys be escorted from Victoria to Campbell River and then off to Gold River, which we were planning to ride with them. Tazzie had never been to Gold River either so it was going to be a good experience. Grizz and Ripper got them safely out of Victoria, so they were pretty happy about that. She was nervous and excited at the same time.

As it turned out we got the guys to their campsite, and decided we would do Gold River in the Morning. Our butts were soar, and we were tired and it was late in the day. We tried to tell the guys it was probably one of the nicest roads on the Island and is suppose to be top 10 in B.C. They decided against it and went to Port hardy in the morning.

Taz and I set off to ride Gold River and be back in time for the road test at 1:45. She did absolutely fantastic!! No Fear Taz... ya little devil!! I remember the first time I did it, I was white knuckling both ways. you were calm cold and collected.

We took some pics along the way and videos, hoping we could encourage the Palladinos to come out this way and teach the RLAP.

Anyway got to Courtenay in time and I got her to practise her U-turns a couple times and parallel parking. We were both confident, that she was going to ace it!!! I asked the guy how long she would be and he said 35 minutes and 10 seconds... Do ya think he has done the same route for a long time????

I rode off for awhile, and when I returned, I saw Fancypants standing there with a rose. She came on her lunch time to congratulate Taz for passing. I then looked over at Taz, and her face looked so sad and she was shaking her head.

I felt really bad for her and told her to laugh at herself now, as she will in time, anyway. It will be a story to tell. What would she do if Miram failed hers next week?? Give the same encouraging words.

That couldn't be!!! But the look on her face could not have been faked. Poor darlin, she had a traffic violation and cross a turning lane. Things were not good, tears, frustration, anger set in. Fancypants and I tried to calm her down, and talk her out of it. It took awhile... but finally I said what does it say on your vest???? Suck it up Princess!!

That sorta got her back to norm a bit, and so I said lets go to CMS, as I knew a hug from a couple of our favorite Cabana boys would do the trick. Blingo said go take her for a nice relaxing ride to Comox lake and out to the airbase and come ride with us later.

So that, we did but by the time we got to Comox and looked at the mileage we had done in the day like 250 we were done as we still had to ride home. And that we did... Great four days with the Tasmanian Devil... She will slay the road test this coming Tuesday as she knows where she went wrong.