Rain on and off today, sometimes heavy. The road from Kamloops to Revelstoke is Rt 1 Trans Canada Highway. Its mostly two lane and lots of traffic! After a brief stop at Tim Horton's for a donut, we continued on to come across the Canadian Pacific's "Last Spike" exhibit. It was 1885, four years BEFORE the U.S. Last Spike in Utah.
We stopped at a wonderful fruit stand for a box of cherries.
Heading south along the "black" roads on the map, for the second half of our day, was almost entirely along the Columbia River and, later, several lakes. One gripe we have: the Canadian road designers have no interest in "scenic views" or turnouts. So for the entire afternoon, I only found ONE place where I could get a view! Otherwise, its just heavy forest on both sides of the curvey road. (They don't do well with rest areas, either!)
At a place called Shelter Bay, we had to take a short ferry ride across the Columbia. It cost us time! We arrived at the dock at 1:30, expecting to take the 2:00 trip across. Turns out, Tuesdays 2:00 are reserved for "hazardous materials"......so we had to wait for 3:00.
Our final stop for the day is the Prestige Hotel (which turns out to be an upscale chain just in B.C.) Beautiful place. Too bad we got in too late to enjoy it! Weather wasn't good anyway. Nice dinner in their dining room.
285 miles 41.6 mpg
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