Sunday August 1, 2010

Well, Friday afternoon after shopping for our holiday, I pulled out our itinerary and realized that we were suppose to leave on Thursday afternoon, thus making all our reservations a day late. Mike says we cant make it to Hope, BC by night so I started cancelling and trying to make new reservations, but it being August Long Weekend, that was difficult. Our beautiful campgrounds I reserved in May went by the wayside and we stayed where ever we could find. The 1st night we made it to Golden and we stayed right next to the trans-Canada Highway. The scenery was excellent as always through the mountains, but the cherry sized hail and rain near Cochrane was a little much. The next morning we rode on thru 35 degree heat on to Kamloops and thru the Fraser Canyon. Stopping at Hells Gate for an air tram ride and ice cream, then on to Hope BC. Our campground in Hope was nice, right on the Fraser River. This morning we left early and caught the Horseshoe Bay Ferry to Nanaimo. Again, I wasted money, cancelled the ferry and rebooked for the right day and then left from a different terminal and realized that motorcycles get priority and dont need reservations. What’s $32.50!!!! Just another learning experience. We had a nice smooth ride on the ferry, good thing as there are no tie downs for our bike. After shopping in Nanaimo for a cord so we could do the blog, we rode on to Port Alberni and on to Ucluelet to our ocean front campsite. The weather has been great, and we are so impressed that we may purchase some property here. There are homes for sale everywhere. This would be a great get away place and for future retirement.