Just trying to figure things out

Hello All, I'm very new to this blogspot deal, so just bear with me. The reason I'm making this blog is to fill in all friends and family back home about me and my mom, Jane Fawley's bike trip/train trip across Canada. However, the details are still rather unclear to me, we leave on July 9th, its a 4000km ride originating here, in Vancouver and the first segment ending in Jasper, Alberta. There we are going to be embarking on a three day train ride to take us to Montreal where we will be spending a few days before leaving for our second part of the trip. We will be going through the remaining part of Quebec and then through the maritimes averaging 80 miles a day. Our destination is St. Johns, Newfoundland, where we will be flying home on the 17th.

Background on us?
Jane Fawley was born in Tanzania, Africa. She moved when she was 5 years old to live in the Cotswolds, England for a year before moving to Vancouver, where she has lived the rest of her life. She met a man named John Hawkins, my father, a man truely dedicated to athletics and is still competing in World Masters events all across the globe. Jane has always wanted to bike across Canada but has never found anyone to do it with her. Time was a large restriction so we shortened the trip to make it possible to do in a summer, with having remaining time to enjoy in Vancouver. Jane loves bicycle touring, having done the trip to San Fransisco twice, from Vancouver to Banff as well as numerous other shorter distance trips.

Me, my name is Julia Hawkins, I'm 17 years old, soon to enter into grade 12, and have lived in West Vancouver my whole life. I love being active and it appears I never stop moving. Im involved in all kinds of sports with clubs, and with school.

Our biking relationship together isn't very large, two years ago, we took our first bike trip together, simply down the oregan coast, a relatively easy ride when I was 15. And our last, being this past summer a very easy 6 day cycle in the Little Loire Valley in the French countryside. This trip will be the largest trip for the both of us.

Me and my mother have been organizing the trip for a few months now and anticipation is high, we've been training (her more so than me) in and around the Vancouver area. So.. wish us luck?

Julia.