Photos - these don't actually have anything to do with Vancouver, but it was kind of a bee-line drive followed by an overnight stay and a flight, so we don't have any pictures.
Marcus says:
Well, it was a long drive to Vancouver, but not at all an unpleasant one. We set off early and were soon to cross a time zone, adding another hour to our day. We were lucky with a road closure as highway 1 was closed just east of Golden, but we came in from the south on highway 93. Even though we had breakfast in Radium, we had to stop at Tim Horton's for a rotten cup of coffee and some beautiful fresh doughnuts as we knew that it might be our last morning with access to a Timmys. We got some stamps and mailed some postcards, bought some souvenirs and set off again.
We went through some familiar spots like Three Valley Gap and the Shuswap Lake area, where we saw a herd of horses in a setting that made them look wild, though they most likely weren't. The weather wasn't great, but then why would it be? We were going to be in the car all day anyway, so hadn't dialed up for the exceptional weather that normally demanded.
Erith discovered another culinary delight when we stopped at Wendy's for lunch. We shared what they used to call a malted (now it's a Frosty or something), risking brain freeze as we were both determined to get our full half.
We eventually got to Vancouver late in the afternoon, but had only a very coarse-grained map of the city on our map of the Rockies. We only took one wrong turn, but recovered from it after a couple of kilometers. The only thing was that I found myself on the wrong side of the road and had to pull over while a confused car went by us - it was the first time that my uncertainty had involved another driver. Erith seemed to sense that this was not a time to chide me about it, though we had a good laugh about it once we got settled.
We booked into a Holiday Inn not too far from the airport. We were really starting to feel the trip coming to a close, partly because our road trip was finished. We were about to leave our last country before the US, which was kind of designed just to break up the trip. It was nearly over...
2 comments:
Marcus those photos are just amazing, they make my mouth water for another Rockies trip. Good on you for catching up the blog, I thought you'd be too busy to look at it once you got home. How is it settling back into the mundane life? Got any plans for the next one? Looking back, what was the best part for you? For Erith? Love to you both, Joanie
Settling in is good - I've got lots of work and and plenty of energy for it. Plans for the next one depend on paying this one off, but I'm definitely going to make travel a higher priority than it has been. Best part? All of it - Erith says the same thing.
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