Well we made it home in one piece! After 18 hours with 3 guys in a regular cab Ford its a suprise that we didn't kill each other. (did I mention the am only radio and 5 speed?) Anyway we had a great time in Reno. We left early on Wed the 12 hoping to make it to Reno in about 17 hours. Our hope were crushed when my Ford decided to fry a valve just outside of Omak Wa. So we left our trailer in Omak and drove back to Canada to see if we could borrow another truck from someone. All we could come up with was a service truck with a million miles and no options. So we went with it, beggers can't be chosers. After driving for about 10 hours, we relized we better pull over before we fell asleep and ran the truck off the road. We got up the next morning, and after fighting a bad headwind made it into Reno. After a struggle to find some good Canadian beer and water for our trailer we finally made it to moonrocks. We arrived to a New Zealand accent saying "you must be the three crazy Canucks" and thats when we met Kiwi. After setting up camp we sat down for some drinks with Kiwi and Tree. What a couple of great guys! We woke up on friday morning and after breakfast we went for a ride with csl,cj rider,farmer john,and their freind on the drz 400. A fabulous ride with a bunch of awesome people. We got back and had luch and some daquries and went on a very fast paced ride with Strick and company.Our bikes rarely see the top 2 gears but they sure did that day. After another night in the desert we woke up on Sat determined to find some firewood. (there is wood in the desert if you look hard enough for it) We had breakfast and our group split up becuse two of us seemed to be more ill from the night before. Scott and I decided to go on the intermediate ride to warm up. Our group leader Bob on the KTM 450 put us through our paces and we had an excellent ride. The only dissapointment on the ride was when the guy on the yzf got hurt and later when the girl hurt her knee. Other than that, the ride was killer especially the sand washes. We arrived back in camp and talked FC22 into mixing up some drinks. We went on another ride that afternoon enjoying the scenery and just riding. Saturday night we stayed up with Kiwi toasting the Queen and telling stories. After Kiwi went to bed we ended up in a patio hauler having refreshments with a Reno local and his wife,Dean and Tammy. After Dean kicked us out sometime after 2 am we decided to get some sleep for the last ride of the weekend. We were all feeling kind of rough on Sunday but decided to ride anyway. With Dean as our guide we went on what seemed to be a very long ride. We got to see great veiws of Reno and Pyramid lake along with some great sand washes and hillclimbs. We had to cut the ride short because one of our guys got a flat. After geting back to camp and mixing a supply of drinks for Kiwi and others we had to say our goodbyes and leave. We made up 2 hours on our time coming home and hope to better that when we come next year. I would like to say it was a pleasure meeting all the riders and others like Kiwi,Tree,Csl, CJ rider (you are fast!) big lou, FC22, Dean and too many others to list. I hope you all enjoyed the blender as much as we did and we will be bringing it back next year along with a bunch more Canadians. I also would like to throw out the idea of reciprocating your hospitality and hosting a ride up here in Canada. We are less than an hour from the border at Oroville WA and have some of the best riding you could imagine very close to us. If there is interest perhaps we could set up a ride when everyone can make it. Just let me know if you are interested and we can set something up. Thank you all again for the great riding and freinds we have made south of the border.