The furnace functioned as we would expect and we were not cold last night. Oh, happy day. And, we finally got a good night’s sleep. We agreed that it was partly due to adjusting to our surroundings, but probably due more to exhaustion from all the miles we did yesterday. Cliff fixed creamed-chipped beef on toast for breakfast. We got on the road at about eight as usual.
After the congestion of Seattle and the surrounding ‘burbs’, we followed the Fraser River north through the Canadian Rockies, which are definitely the biggest things on the face of the earth. They make the Smokies look like mere hills. We travelled for many, many miles in the valley with the mountains on either side (we crossed over to the other side twice) and once we got past these incredible mountains, the valleys were very picturesque, like something out of a painting by Albert Bierstad, one of the painters who immortalized the West. I photographed a mountain at some point today that looked like part of one of his paintings. This is a very beautiful part of our country.
I had a meltdown this afternoon due to road stuff and trying in vain to find a place to spend the night. So we stopped at a rest area and Cliff (who was more familiar with the Canada info) found a likely camp ground with WIFI. Okay, I didn’t know there was a cat. She’s a working cat so I couldn’t pet her, but she followed us on our walk. We had hotdogs for supper, watched a DVD of the Ninth Symphony, computered and went to bed.
Stuff: The blooming trees and flowers, including dogwood and rhododendron, were beautiful.
We lunched by the Fraser River on fresh fruit, raw veggies, and cheeses. Had no wine.
We crossed Spuzzum Creek.
To change a kilometer to a mile, multiply by .6, 100 kilometers per hour is 60 mph.
Cliff used algebra today.
Pine beetles have killed vast amounts of trees in the northwest. It’s sad to see.
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