Getting used to the idea ....
... both me and the girls. It is going to mean 10 weeks of hard work and we're all bound to miss each other though I'll be in touch daily by GSM or Satellite phone. It seems so distant still with only 3 days to go...

and then off to the airport, this is her palletted and ready for airfreight...
Bike was flown the day before me so as to have it ready for colleaction on my arrival in Toronto.
Getting away wasn't as easy as I thought, early at the airport didn't work - it was 11.00 pm before the bike was finally accepted and prepped for airfreight - 3 trips from home later...