Yes! We were right! It poured this morning, but warm and cozy we were in a Travel Lodge Motel in cute little Fernie BC. Much appreciated by all. Unfortunately it is predicted to rain all day and tonight, so we are staying here tonight too, then plan to do the final push over the Crow's Nest Pass tomorrow. Fernie is a beautiful town nestled amidst the snow capped Rocky Mountains. Great skiing in the winter.
We don't want all our predictions to come true however.... As we plan to cross the border into Alberta, conversation abounds with predictions of what is to come. Alan and Evan have dire predictions of sparce grocery stores with only Western Family white bread and bologna. Leah is more charitable, having lived a few summers in Alberta. Ginny checked her stash of rooibos tea, coconut powder and Szechuan chilli ginger stir fry paste, and decided to buy more just in case Alan and Evan are right. We are all hoping for one last round of cinnamon buns in BC tomorrow, fearing that they may not be available in Alberta. What will our new treats there be? Who said food was not important?
So with a day's rest we should be in shape to climb the pass tomorrow. And Ginny is happy to say that the Cat is coming with us! Thanks to Evan's expert assistance, the cat is still alive. We fear she may be approaching the end of her 9 lives however, and has recently showed signs of Alzheimer's. She appears to have trouble remembering things. Yesterday for example she lost her memory totally of almost the entire day's trip! So instead of 120 km, she registered only 15.... We think her memory is affected in some bizarre way by passing trains, or trucks, because she had been doing fine, and then zappo, it all got erased... Weird.
So today is a quiet day. Some reading, grocery shopping, bike cleaning. Ginny is madly finishing up Oryx and Crake, the depressing Margaret Atwood precurser to the Year of the Flood.That prediction is one we hope will not come true. Certainly not so far in BC anyway. Everyone here is so friendly. The manager at the motel is so friendly that he is letting me use his computer to write this blog which is good, because neither Alan nor Ginny have mastered the fine art of typing out the blog on Evan's phone. Cat's aside, it is hard to teach old dogs new tricks!
We don't want all our predictions to come true however.... As we plan to cross the border into Alberta, conversation abounds with predictions of what is to come. Alan and Evan have dire predictions of sparce grocery stores with only Western Family white bread and bologna. Leah is more charitable, having lived a few summers in Alberta. Ginny checked her stash of rooibos tea, coconut powder and Szechuan chilli ginger stir fry paste, and decided to buy more just in case Alan and Evan are right. We are all hoping for one last round of cinnamon buns in BC tomorrow, fearing that they may not be available in Alberta. What will our new treats there be? Who said food was not important?
So with a day's rest we should be in shape to climb the pass tomorrow. And Ginny is happy to say that the Cat is coming with us! Thanks to Evan's expert assistance, the cat is still alive. We fear she may be approaching the end of her 9 lives however, and has recently showed signs of Alzheimer's. She appears to have trouble remembering things. Yesterday for example she lost her memory totally of almost the entire day's trip! So instead of 120 km, she registered only 15.... We think her memory is affected in some bizarre way by passing trains, or trucks, because she had been doing fine, and then zappo, it all got erased... Weird.
So today is a quiet day. Some reading, grocery shopping, bike cleaning. Ginny is madly finishing up Oryx and Crake, the depressing Margaret Atwood precurser to the Year of the Flood.That prediction is one we hope will not come true. Certainly not so far in BC anyway. Everyone here is so friendly. The manager at the motel is so friendly that he is letting me use his computer to write this blog which is good, because neither Alan nor Ginny have mastered the fine art of typing out the blog on Evan's phone. Cat's aside, it is hard to teach old dogs new tricks!
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