Hello!
Sorry for the lack of updates, the campground we stayed at last night had no service! It was beautiful though, it was called Kumsheen Rafting Resort, and it had pretty much everything you could imagine - basketball, horseshoes, volleyball, tetherbal, a pool, a hottub, and the most beautiful view you could imagine! It is also super sureal since we are the only people here and there is all this awesome stuff to do...we have only seen the girl at the check in and thats it. Unfortunately, we are both so exhausted from the huge day we had that we aren't able to take advantage of most of it. This being said, this post was written yesterday so try not to get too confused.
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| The bridge out of Hope |
Today we left the campground in Hope, BC. This campground was pretty uneventful, although there were a few notable instances. We kept our food under the sink in one of the washrooms so bears wouldn't attack us (naturally) and when Chris went to get it in the morning, he noticed a mouse had chewed through our bag of sandwiches and had eaten a chunk out of one of them. He ripped that chunk out and ate the rest of the sandwich. He says he inspected the rest of the sandwiches and they appeared fine. However, he didn't tell any of this to me until much later in the day when all the sandwiches were gone... I wasn't too impressed, but the sandwiches were delicious.
We had a pretty big day today, we covered over 122km, which is fairly impressive in itself - only most of the time today we spent climbing up mountains. I'm talking about half an hour spent on the lowest gear, just givin 'er. We also passed through quite a few tunnels, all dug right into the mountains... pretty neat. We had to walk our bike through most of them, but there was one that had a button similar to the button you push at a crosswalk that made these lights flash on both ends of the tunnel to tell cars that there was a bike inside, so to be careful - neat stuff. From Hope, we decided to take Highway #1 (Transcanada highway). This highway runs right along the side of the Fraser River and it runs through the Fraser canyon. Throughout the day we caught glimpses of the mighty Fraser River, and it was really pretty. We also saw the tourist's attraction "Hell's Gate" which is basically an AirTram that goes over the deepest and narrowest point of the Fraser River. We didn't go on it because it was really expensive, and we couldn't see too much from the parking lot but it was still kind of neat.
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| Made it through our first tunnel! |
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| Hells gate info...we didn't actually go on it though. |
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| Walking through the longest tunnel of the day. |
It was a good day though, we ran into these guys who stayed at the same campground as us last night, and they were biking to the same place as us, so we kept on passing each other back and forth and eventually all of us made it into Lytton, BC. Chris went into the grocery store to get dinner, and while he did a couple of locals approached me and the other two guys (Mark and Brett) to ask us about our trip - they were really strange, we think they were either really drunk, or high on something because they kept on repeating the same questions, and the one guy kept patting Brett on the back and they were just wierd. The one guy had never heard of Ontario, and I thought that was pretty funny - he asked where we were from, and I told him Ontario, to which he replied "Is that close?" I then told him it's just East of Manitoba, and he didn't know where that was either. Eventually though, the one guy called over his buddy because we were trying to find a campground. We were all pretty exasperated but were extremely relieved when the buddy turned out to be really nice, and extremely helpful. He pointed us towards this campground and gave us easy directions. We eventually found the place, and are sharing a site with Brett and Mark.
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| The view from our campsite and Patricia sitting at the table. |
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| The view from our campsite facing the other way. |
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| Train across the canyon. |
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| Close up of the gravel slide tunnels. |
The weather has been so perfect for us so far (knock on wood) and we couldn't be more happy. Today was 19 degrees and so sunny! My face is totally sunburnt which kind of sucks, but this is what happens when you spend the entire day outside.
Oh one more interesting side note - at one point we were taking a break along the side of the road, when this horse comes running towards us! It looked like he got away from his owner or something because there was a girl and a dog both chasing after it down the highway! She probably wanted to catch it ASAP since a horse running the wrong way in the middle of the TransCanada Highway is not a recipe for a clean road. We don't know if she ever caught it, last we saw he was running into a forest at top speed.
The plan is to sleep in tomorrow since today was such a big day, and we're hoping to get to Cache Creek - 84km away. We might stop before then though, depending on how we feel since I anticipate being rather sore when I wake up.
Well thats all for now, we'll update again soon.
