On the Road Again

07-25-2010 Sunday 11:00 a.m.
Cheryl: I just finished pulling off hundreds of the stickiest stick tights from the dogs’ fur. I took them on a walk this morning where we had to walk in the underbrush to skirt around a puddle. That did it. We were carriers of plant life instantly.

Last evening we went to the awards banquet, which was very good food by the way (salmon, roast beef sliced before your very eyes, along with corn, four kinds of salads, peas and tiny carrots, mashed potatoes and gravy), and Frank won second place in the Café Bike category. It’s a nifty trophy, but you have to see it to understand. Maybe we’ll include a picture here.

I spent yesterday morning hiking with the dogs along a thundering wide creek on a lovely stage coach road. At the best places along the creek, picnic tables were stationed strategically. What splendid places to have lunch or just a snack. There were white rocky beaches where you could easily walk next to the water and see how clear and clean it is. Because I was so enthralled with my hike, I missed the group photo back in Lumby where Frank had taken the bike earlier to get set up for the bike judging concourse.

When I finally got there around 1:00 p.m., only an hour late, we grabbed a burger at a food cart and then took pictures and salivated over all the bikes lining the concourse. After walking around in the sun and all that hiking I did, we came back to the trailer and slept a couple of hours before the banquet. Frank got to stand up for applause as the founder of the club, and for the very first time, I got to stand up as wife of the founder. Gee whiz, I didn’t do anything, but marry the guy. Oh well, it was nice anyway.

Today we are packing to leave, and Frank discovered he’d left a couple of things back at the other campground in Lumby that he needs to secure the bike. So, while he’s there I’m doing a couple loads of laundry for only 2 loonies for both wash and dry. They’ve got a laundry lean-to set up close enough for me to walk from the trailer with one washer and one dryer at a dollar each. We couldn’t pass up this opportunity to do laundry so cheaply. I wanted to get on the internet so I could post this along with some pictures, but for some reason there is no connection this morning. The campground is just in the process of setting up WiFi and having some difficulty it seems. Oh well, we’ll find some free electrons somewhere along the way.

We’re making a little loop so we can cross at the ferry we missed on the bike adventure the other day and eat at the Mushroom Restaurant where we’ve heard you can order all kinds of wild mushrooms with your lunch. They even reportedly have Morels! Yumm! Haven’t had those in years. After that we’ll stay somewhere over by Silverton or New Denver (named for Denver in the US). Don’t know how long it will take us to do this scenic loop, but after we cross into the states, we’ll be on our way to Seattle to see our kids and grandkids.

Update: We're in Castlegar, BC at a fairly nice campground. We're just happy to be down for the night as we'd planned a short day, and it's now 7:35 p.m.! Yikes!

We saw wonderful scenery again today with several ARRBL's. However, we're both so tired tonight, we'll tell you all about it in tomorrow's blog.

“Catch you on the flip side” – (You guess the movie)
Russell Crowe, Meg Ryan, Peanut Caruso and Cleo Chica