Blogs from Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, North America - page 7

14th July We woke early after a good night sleep at Mary's motel in Golden. We know there are bears about as there were some rubbish bags shredded to bits outside the Kicking horse grill, but we are just not going to see any! We made a reasonably early start after Amy had done her run and we had had breakfast at the Golden bakery on main street which was delicious. We arrived at the Canyon hot springs at about 12.30 and spent about an hour and a half relaxing in the thermal water which was about 40 degrees. We had a long drive through the mountains to Kamloops on our way back to Vancouver and the coast. We reached Kamloops about 4.00p.m and while Bob got the computer out Rich and Amy and I went ... read more

A very long drive today…. Yesterday we had snow…. Today we had 30c heat !.....can you believe it ?? We spent a little time in Jasper this morning, before leaving about 10am, we knew we had a long drive ahead, but we didn’t know, how hot it would be….. a real shock to the system. As we drove south along highway 5 we followed the Nth Thompson river, the scenery changed from snow covered mountains to open farmland. Pine trees disappeared and were replaced by forests of silver birch and maples. Kamloops is in a semi arid zone, now the mountains are small parched and treeless…… what a difference 450ks make ! Along the way, the railroad mirrored the road, travelling along by the waters edge and snaking through the valley floor. Now we see ... read more

After finding a place to stay last night at a camping ground I went for a walk up to this lake on top on a hill about 400m up, was a realllly nice hike with lots of weird rock formations and when I got to the top had a real nice swim in a warm lake, wicked! Hitched to a town called Kamloops today, only took 2 rides. Staying the night with another random I meet off couchsurfing.com, real cool guy, took him dumpstering for the first time, sadly no luck, but we did get to meet some homeless guys who told us about all the dumpsters in the city and gave me some good advice if I wanted to find some work (Not that I'm going to ;) the Canadian authorities warned me I'd get ... read more

Well, it was with mixed feelings that i have left my surrogate home in wellington. Funds almost exhausted, course complete, and lots of friends leaving, spurned me to make a final decision to take the road show somewhere new. Looks like i will be back here for a few weeks maybe a few months, but saving for the next journey. It has been a great trip. Singapore to australia, australia to New Zealand. Wrought with ups and downs and new friends (and in some cases enemies lol). But as the saying goes, the fun has to stop sometime. So after an early morning 13 hour bus ride to auckland, a shuttle to the airport, a flight to singapore, then a sleep in the airport, then a flight to South korea, then another flight to canada, i ... read more

Hello there. Just encase you are in the Kamloops area: Dakotah and I will be presenting our two month African Experience at Gateway City Church on Oriole Road in Kamloops on Monday June 11, 2007. Come at 6:30 to fill up on deserts and coffee then we will start the show at 7pm. And, bring a desert if you are so enclined. I hope to see lots of people there. Kelly... read more