Day 13: Creston to Moyie Lake ( brought to you by the biggest cinnamon bun in the world)

We woke up to the sound of rain... Luckily it was only 5:00am so I went back to sleep. When I next awoke it was only sprinkling and that meant it was time to bust it out of there.

Despite words of caution from our hosts and the people at the local store, we decided to take a short cut and avoid downtown Creston. Our short cut road was quite a mouthful to say , "Lake-view lower arrow creek road" and it was also brutally steep! After a bit of a slog, and a big downhill on the other side of the ridge we rejoined the route 3 and came across the wondrous "Homestyle Cafe". Despite good intentions to only get a muffin we all ended up getting huge omlettes , hash-brown and toast breakfasts. They were delicious but the story is far from over.

As usual our friends Dustin and Nathaniel also stopped at the cafe. We have said goodbye to them a half dozen time only to see them the next day. They had already had coffee in town so they opted for a cinnamon bun instead and let me tell you about these cinnamon buns... They were the size of a small football and weighed over a pound each! These are the biggest cinnamon buns in the world. It took Dustin and Nathaniel nearly the same amount of time to eat 1 cinnamon bun as it did for us to eat all of our brunch. We simply had to have some for our late afternoon snack.

For the rest of the day we dreamed of the sugary goodness as we cycled though mostly flat wet terrain. Just before the town of Yahk, the 95 highway joined the 3 and along with it came a ton of semi trucks which made the last 50 kms a bit less fun.

The good news was that the rain held off most of the day with only sporadic scattered showers and that the cinnamon buns were out of this world.






We arrived at the Moyie lake provincial campground as the rain picked up. We were very disappointed to find that there was not a single covered area in the park where we could cook dinner so we looked elsewhere. Down the road, we stumbled onto a beautiful plot of land with a large covered carport. Ginny walked up the driveway and met Ray and his wonderful wife who where extremely nice, like almost all of the other BCers we have met. Not only did they let us cook under the car port but we were even able to set up our tents. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you, you made our day!






As a follow up from our last challenge ( the spraying can photo which we haven't forgotten about and will award a prize too soon) our next challenge is as follows; Anyone able to find a bigger cinnamon bun and take a picture of themselves eating it will be knighted into the royal cinnamon circle!

Stay tuned for tomorrow when we brave day 2 of the rain and also hope to break the 1000 km barrier!

Stats:
Distance: 100.29 km (bonus 10 km due to shortcut)
Time on bike: 6:32:01 ( current record)
Average speed: 15.3 km/h
Distance from Vancouver: 918 km
Start time: 8:20 am
End time: 5:25 pm


Cheers
- The Warpotay Team

Location:Moyie Lake, British Columbia