Blogs from 100 Mile House, British Columbia, Canada, North America - page 2

Adam's Blog: (We'll be jumping on our cruise ship soon so may not get a chance to update 11th week highlights later, so here goes now - without photos): We checked out of our hotel in Jasper Sunday morning early as with a 4 hour drive ahead it was going to be a busy day... The family finally realised my need to be at Bridge Lake by midday because as soon as we got there I turned the tv on to fina Australia were down 0-4 with 10 minutes to go against Germany....not happy....oohh well...Our highlight of the drive was eeing another black bear and elk on the road side. The drive down out of the Rockies was a constant roller coaster through valleys around lakes. We said goodbye to the snow capped mountains and found ... read more

Hello again! We have a late start today so here is our update. After Banff we travelled to Invermere BC. Very scenic drive as they all seem to be lately! We went to Creston next. We are on days now so we are in smaller communities. After our celebration in Creston we went to a tiny village called Ymir where our manager/buddy Jeff ran the torch. Very cool. Ymir has the oldest continuously running hotel in BC. Quite amazing for a tiny village. We carried on to Trail. After Trail was Penticton. The people are all so friendly and the spirit keeps getting higher as we get closer to the end. Everyone is very excited!The Okanogan Valley is spectacular. Lakes are not frozen, no snow and the sun is always shining. We went to Vernon and ... read more

Day 48. Saturday. What are Saturday's for? Sleeping in right? Although I could have easily stayed ion bed longer my minimal good cense told me to get up at 12.30 so I would be able to sleep tonight. I fired up the BBQ and toasted some bread and broke out the peanut butter. I hav'nt had any in a while and if I'm going to have much more before I get home I'm going to have to restock. The sky was mixed cloud and it was a bit windy but The Weather Network said no rain so off I went for a ride on the bike. I went North to Lone Butt and then East along Hwy 24 to Hwy 97S and then North to 100 Mile House. It is the largest town or maybe even ... read more

So here we are, stealing wifi from another closed visitors' center. It is now 10:00 PM and it looks like it's noon. We just ate at a place called Boston Pizza, that was delicious. Anyways, our waitress told us that the sun sets at about 11:30 PM and rises at 4:00 AM right now. She also said that during the summer solstice in June, when the sun sets it still looks like dawn and that it's just a light blue in the sky. It's really trippy and plays with your senses. Today has been a very interesting day, to say the least. We had a scare last night because David's bank decided to put a hold on his account when they started seeing all of the charges outside of Illinois.....even though he called them before we ... read more