A Great little bar. If your riding in the interior of BC. If you’ve never stop at the Falkland Pub. You must. Sign for parking out front says ” horses and hogs only” I live in Kamloops BC about a 45 minute ride to Falkland. I have driven past lots of times without stopping. Stopped once or twice while riding. It’s a perfect distance for my bike. At about one hour I need a break and gas. Yes gas. Not a small tank. Too many ponies.
One beautiful Sunday in April a couple years back. I decided it was a great day to get the bike out of moth balls and go for my first ride of the season. The girl friend and I get ready, dressed fairly warm. Off we go. As we leave Kamloops the weather starts to change. Clouds rolling in and getting dark and cold. One half hour out of Kamloops it starts to rain. Now I’m thinking. Do we turn back or keep going? I’m not sure if I have enough gas to make it back to Kamloops. Decision made. On to Falkland. By the time we get to Falkland it’s starting to snow.
Now freezing. We get gas and head for the Falkland Pub. We walk through the doors. The waitress is already putting coffee on the table. Guess she heard us pull up in front. My bike is also really loud. There’s a few people in the pub. All looking at us like we were out of our minds. Everyone in the place and I mean everyone. Said hello and the conversations started. Where you from? Typical conversations about the weather. Spent about two hours trying to warm up.
While we were there people offered us some where to stay, use if a truck and trailer to get back to Kamloops and tons of free coffee. When we decided the weather had cleared enough to make the trip back home. People offered me a heavy sweat shirt and my girl friend a snow suit. We declined all the offers, bundled up and started towards home.
The trip home was wild. The road between Kamloops and Falkland twists around between the mountains. Almost around every bend the weather changed. We hit rain, hail, snow and once out of the mountains sun again. I have never been shown hospitality like that day. In a tiny town biker pub called the Falkland Pub. Great food. Great People. Bikers just never seem to stop amazing me.
So if your every riding or driving by be sure to stop. You might be as impressed as we were. Do have a bar in your area that is a must stop?