I’m pushing now to get to Arctic. Still almost 2,000 miles away from Canadian Border. Weather is wet and cold. Ride, eat, sleep, ride…. Entries will be brief until I get time to digest notes.
Mountains are beautiful but that means I must zig and zag hundreds of kilometers sideways to get get north. I’m burning miles with no forward progress.
Found a great lodge in small lake town. Also awoke the next morning to this – great – grocery across the street.
It is literally called “Over weighty” foods. Not full of trans fat. Instead almost like Whole Foods. Got great supplies in bulk,
ATT phone, of course, not working and even if it did, would be charging about 3 times market price for messaging. Tried to buy SIM card for phone. Canada Post could sell me time, but not the physical card.
Drove to Revelstoke. Found TELUS dealer in clothing shop. Amazingly helpful. Here’s how you can tell the US still has monopoly phone companies and rip us off… For $106 US I got a new side-slider phone, with QWERTY keyboard plus regular phone layout PLUS a month of unlimited web surifing, a month of unlimited texting, and 250 minutes of talk time. ATT charges $60 per month for 50 megs of web, $19 per month for basic web connection, $5 per month plus $.50 per message for text, and $40 per month for minutes. Love Canadian market.
BC is like Switzerland with great lakes in middle of mountains. Got to take a cool ferry across one lake. Ferries in BC are all free, except long haul routes.
Ferry arrival was pleasant view.
On the ferry this bird………
…had built a nest under the railing at the very front of the boat…..right in the middle of where passengers stand…
See…..Canadians are as friendly as they say….(Smile)
Later….much later….I’m still trying to ride the jeep with canvas off, emulating the motorcycle experience……but serious thunderstorms really prevent driving open. Click on video below for glimpse of rain coming in from the rear. I played with the canvas enough so that I can get a balance of open plus not hypothermic. Even in this shot, the front seat is getting wet. Who knows why I am doing this, but it seems to keep me occupied and off the streets….so to speak..
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I’m really tired. Too many miles. Sleep.