Today we started today off pretty slow. It was raining on and off all night and it was still sprinkling in the morning. We had a long day yesterday so we slept in quite a bit in the hopes that the rain would stop before we had to start riding. This is also when Patricia and I realized we have different definitions of sleeping in. If the sun is up when we leave then we slept in, according to me, but according to Patricia 7:00 is not sleeping in. So I let her sleep some more while I went to soak my sore muscles in the hot tub. When I got back I started packing all our gear up and in the process woke her up again at 7:30.
Patricia had a banana and pb and j sandwich for breakfast and I had a can of cold zoodles leftover from last nights supper (no need to carry a can of zoodles up a couple giant hills). We packed up pretty slowly and were on the road sometime after 9:00. We also said good-bye to our friends, Mark and Brent, who we shared the campsite with - hopefully they have a safe trip.On his way out of the campsite, Mark got a flat tire and it was a good thing too because while they were changing the tube I went to the washroom and I found Mark's camera charger still plugged in.
Just down the road(and up a hill) from our campsite we took the picture below. You can kinda see where we camped on the left as well as the railway tunnels we saw from our site.While taking that picture I walked across the road and up a little hill, and on my way back I saw a moose track in the ditch.
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| Moose track in the ditch! |
We continued biking and noticed that the scenery is slowly changing. Everything is getting more desert looking and the mountains are becoming more barren.
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| Me standing on a big cement retaining wall to protect the highway from falling rocks. |
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| Patricia took this while we were riding, you can see the road in the distance. |
About 20km into our ride we saw a sign for bacon and eggs. We were in the middle of no where and couldn't resist a second breakfast that sounded so delicious. Breakfast was fantastic and the coffee was hot...good times. Across the road from the diner there was a stopped train that had apparently been there all night. While we were waiting for our breakfast a man came in and started talking to the waiter and was counting his money to see if he had enough for breakfast. The waiter later told us that he was catching a free ride on the train to Kamloops and had just been sleeping in one of the empty train cars. After his breakfast, he switched his strategy since the train hadn't moved for so long(presumably it was broken down) and he began hitch hiking down the side of the highway.
After our breakfast we were loading our stuff back on the bike and getting ready to start biking when we saw another bike tourist coming down the road. We got all packed up and eventually caught up to him.. He is biking to the east coast and is also from Ontario. We talked briefly and learned he was also hoping to stay in Cache Creek tonight. However, we were going a little faster than him and slowly pulled away. We didn't see him again today, but I imagine we'll see him again tomorrow since there is basically one highway to take.
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| Best breakfast we've had in days. |
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| This sign got our hopes up but we never saw any. |
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| A really curvy section of road...fun riding. |
We pedaled and pedaled and pedaled and eventually made it to Cache Creek. Our first stop was the grocery store where we met two other cyclists who are also going across Canada. We talked for a while and they recommended a motel that they were staying at right across the street. At this point it looked like a storm was brewing and it was already lightly raining so we decided to stay the night there too. We have clothes, sleeping bags, and our tent sprawled across every surface in the room so they dry and air out. We had chips and kraft dinner and a bunch of other random stuff for dinner and had nice hot showers. I imagine we'll sleep good tonight.
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| And we made it! |
We have really good internet connection here so that explains why this post got so many pictures added to it. Anyways, that's about all we can think of for now. Tomorrow is another big day, it is only about 85km to Kamloops but the ride is mostly uphill with a rather long and high climb at the end. Oh, and don't forget to check out the Stats page, we update it every time we do a new post.
Chris and Patricia.
