After a great nights sleep in a warm and very comfortable bed we felt refreshed and ready for another days cycle, mainly because it was only 65km. The couple at the Spences Bridge Inn had breakfast ready and waiting when we hobbled down the stairs. There was fresh muffins, homemade bread, fruit, cereal and lots of tea, so as you can imagine I was in my element.
We had a very interesting ride today and it only took us 4hours. It was full of steep climbs but nothing my robo bike couldn't handle. The main excitement of the journey was an animal one. But it wasn't the famous Canadian wildlife it was the 'domestic life', 2 great big guard dogs. The first dog leaped out from nowhere and jut missed Agnes and then before we had time to think his partner in crime jumped out and almost pushed Agnes off the road, but luckily she escaped. This was something I hadn't even considered as when in Canada you usually think of Bears and Cougars. It was a great adrenalin rush though and made a smooth uneventful ride a lot of fun.
We arrived in Merritt and decided to bypass the ghetto campsite and headed straight for the visitors centre and what a great move it turned out to be. We met Catherine Oborne at the centre and she advised us on the best campsite and invited us for dinner at her family home.
We headed off to the campsite Moon Shadows and there we met Roxanne the site manager. She was so good to us, our tent was still wet so she put us up in the laundry/arcade games room, which doesn't sound great but it was the bees knees. Plus the arcade games were free so we happily played bomberman and Mortal Kombat.
At around 6pm Catherine picked us up from the campsite and took us to her family home. There we met Darch her husband, James their son and Claudio an exchange student from Switzerland. We had a great meal (Deer), wine and conversation. I must say this trip is starting out very well, it is very early days but we are both feeling very good about everything.
We had a very interesting ride today and it only took us 4hours. It was full of steep climbs but nothing my robo bike couldn't handle. The main excitement of the journey was an animal one. But it wasn't the famous Canadian wildlife it was the 'domestic life', 2 great big guard dogs. The first dog leaped out from nowhere and jut missed Agnes and then before we had time to think his partner in crime jumped out and almost pushed Agnes off the road, but luckily she escaped. This was something I hadn't even considered as when in Canada you usually think of Bears and Cougars. It was a great adrenalin rush though and made a smooth uneventful ride a lot of fun.
We arrived in Merritt and decided to bypass the ghetto campsite and headed straight for the visitors centre and what a great move it turned out to be. We met Catherine Oborne at the centre and she advised us on the best campsite and invited us for dinner at her family home.
We headed off to the campsite Moon Shadows and there we met Roxanne the site manager. She was so good to us, our tent was still wet so she put us up in the laundry/arcade games room, which doesn't sound great but it was the bees knees. Plus the arcade games were free so we happily played bomberman and Mortal Kombat.
At around 6pm Catherine picked us up from the campsite and took us to her family home. There we met Darch her husband, James their son and Claudio an exchange student from Switzerland. We had a great meal (Deer), wine and conversation. I must say this trip is starting out very well, it is very early days but we are both feeling very good about everything.
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