Friday, July 8, 2005
Day 11 – Distance: 90.9 km
Salmon Arm to Three Valley Gap BC
Another early awakening (3:30 a.m.) for a bathroom visit, and being unable to get back to sleep! We got up at 6:00, and made a quick breakfast of oatmeal at the site. We drove back to where we had left off (my suggestion, but NOT a good one) instead of just starting from the campsite. The distance would have been the same. But we wouldn’t have had to start our day out by walking up, and up, and up 10th Ave. in Salmon Arm! I don’t think I mentioned how hilly the place is! I think it was 2 km, but Monique insists it was further. I think she finally forgave me, but I’m not sure. I like to think if I had been warmed up, not so tired, and had my old bike, which has more favourable gear ratios for hill climbing, that I might have been able to climb at least most of the hill, but I definitely wasn’t in shape for doing it first thing this morning! It was also a rainy morning, so we were outfitted in all our raingear, and that of course made us rather hot. The rain stayed with us the rest of the day, and we learned to hang on and keep our heads down when the transport trucks came by. Luckily the roads were still relatively flat all day, although the winds were sometimes in our face. We decided fairly soon that tonight was going to be a hotel night if at all possible, and we are now comfortably ensconced at the Three Valley Gap Lake Chateau and Ghost Town, in a very beautiful setting. Unfortunately, they don’t have internet access, so you’ll have to wait to read this!
Rant for the day: shoulders of roads that stop at bridges over creeks and railroads, so that you have to wait for traffic to clear before continuing. Bad shoulders on roads. Spray from trucks – one practically blinded us. I was glad I didn’t have glasses on.
Rave: seeing where the last spike for the railroad was driven in – a dream fulfilled to cross the country by rail. I thought of my dream to cross the country on two little wheels, and I got a little emotional.
Scenery today was definitely getting more lush and mountainous, as we are entering the Rocky Mountains. Tomorrow we start to climb Rogers Pass – we’ve already booked ourselves in at a campsite where there are hot springs. I suspect we’ll be needing them.
Salmon Arm to Three Valley Gap BC
Another early awakening (3:30 a.m.) for a bathroom visit, and being unable to get back to sleep! We got up at 6:00, and made a quick breakfast of oatmeal at the site. We drove back to where we had left off (my suggestion, but NOT a good one) instead of just starting from the campsite. The distance would have been the same. But we wouldn’t have had to start our day out by walking up, and up, and up 10th Ave. in Salmon Arm! I don’t think I mentioned how hilly the place is! I think it was 2 km, but Monique insists it was further. I think she finally forgave me, but I’m not sure. I like to think if I had been warmed up, not so tired, and had my old bike, which has more favourable gear ratios for hill climbing, that I might have been able to climb at least most of the hill, but I definitely wasn’t in shape for doing it first thing this morning! It was also a rainy morning, so we were outfitted in all our raingear, and that of course made us rather hot. The rain stayed with us the rest of the day, and we learned to hang on and keep our heads down when the transport trucks came by. Luckily the roads were still relatively flat all day, although the winds were sometimes in our face. We decided fairly soon that tonight was going to be a hotel night if at all possible, and we are now comfortably ensconced at the Three Valley Gap Lake Chateau and Ghost Town, in a very beautiful setting. Unfortunately, they don’t have internet access, so you’ll have to wait to read this!
Rant for the day: shoulders of roads that stop at bridges over creeks and railroads, so that you have to wait for traffic to clear before continuing. Bad shoulders on roads. Spray from trucks – one practically blinded us. I was glad I didn’t have glasses on.
Rave: seeing where the last spike for the railroad was driven in – a dream fulfilled to cross the country by rail. I thought of my dream to cross the country on two little wheels, and I got a little emotional.
Scenery today was definitely getting more lush and mountainous, as we are entering the Rocky Mountains. Tomorrow we start to climb Rogers Pass – we’ve already booked ourselves in at a campsite where there are hot springs. I suspect we’ll be needing them.
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