”I’m biking since I’m 12 years old,” said Vande Weghe in his strong French accent.
The tour had so far taken him and Maya two weeks to come up Vancouver Island, then across on the ferry to Bella Coola and then east to Williams Lake.
Vande Weghe moved to Canada to study forestry and did an internship on northern Vancouver Island, so he was familiar with some of the landscape through the island.