Geo: 47.2551, -122.442Today was a rather uneventful day…well, most of it. We left Kamloops at 8:30 and 72 degrees with clear blue skies, and before the day was done, it had reached 97. We have no complaints about the heat, after all, we live in Florida. We like warm weather. The drive to the border took most of the morning, through sometimes desert-like areas with yellow grass and sage plants spread everywhere, and later through rolling hills…I guess this was the foothills of the Canadian Rockies. We drove up and over some, down into valleys between them, and around the sides of others, where the rock had been cut to allow for the passage of the roads. And the topography that predominated was small mountains covered with trees…Douglas Fir, Ponderosa Pine, and sometimes aspen, which I
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