Day 38 Wed-Hwys to Revelstoke!

Well not happy Jan a mongrel mutt started barking at our below ground level window at 4.10 this morning…and went in for over an hour or more…yes there must have been something disturbing it but surely it’s owner the owner of our BnB could have shut the mutt up…
So sad to say I didn’t get back to sleep as had to get myself up earlier than planned anyway for our trip today….

So up we got reluctantly, packed had our Brekky here and set off up the Hwy towards Revelstoke….

We weren’t far out if the city area when we saw what looked like ocean inlet area..so we headed off to find it…well that turned into a Maze of streets that went no where near the ocean inlet, and it should have only taken us 19 mins to rectify our mistake but due to major road works that didn’t turn out as planned………it ended up being neatly 30 mins to get back to the Hwy way we needed to head east…Stupidly we actually did this same type of mistake a few times today……saw a sign to a waterfall or a site and they never seem to take you to where it says and they give distances at all…it’s like you flying in the dark…

Next stop was morning tea ☕️ which turned out to be a great 2 fold stop got John’s beers and bottle of bubbly for me…but on the way to our stop which we didn’t know had a Liquor Store we thought only a Tim Hortons…well just as we turned off the main road to our right turn…there was a little medium strip and straddled right across it with tyres neatly placed over both sides of the medium strip with the sigh post push forward was a Mini minor…The owner had to be flying very fast around the corner to have landed in the position he did… enough excitement for the day…
We headed off down the Hwy but just as we were getting going we saw a sign for some more water falls…so we turned off only to have to go through a short tunnel under a Hwy culvert then up a dirt track that had a big work crew of guys working on a new road…you would think these guys would say something to us that it’s not worth going up the road… but no not a word…we get past all the road works and joy of joy John t brought someone had out lots of osier in the bush and beside the road but it was snow all around the roads edge…we get further up the road is majorly washed away from recent flood waters so that finished that side trip….we had to turn around and head out again…past the snow and past the road crew who probably were have a huge laugh about the all,the idiots heading in that road…we past another car doing exactly what we did…. You would think they could put a sign up at the traffic lights to say road washout,.,,it was weird they even had the traffic lights set up with the road literally unable to be accessed….

So off we sleep again..up a very windy Hwy where the speed becomes 120kph ….now how queer is that on the struggle, straight, straight Hwys it’s 90kph…..but here where we are up in the mountains and yes given it’s a 4 lane Hwy but it twists and turns sine quite sharp bends and you can do 120kph….I thought at one stage we would start flying it felt like we were trying for a take off…,I had to ask John to go a little slower please….the screeners again was becoming quite stunning with the odd waterfall, flowing from the cliffs…plus we were in and out of thick, thick fog which gave it a different atmosphere totally….

We were heading to a Kamloops for lunch…we were making our way back through the Rockies to head to Jasper in a days time…so we should have gone back over the same Hwy to Kamloops…but we choose a different route..which gave us a different landscape from when we headed out from it before…More lush, green and thick line forests, plus lots of farm land as well….

We made it to Kamloops around 1 pm we had set the Nav for a restaurant I had googled. It turned out to be in the main downtown….the restaurant Coros Rest Bar was a bit flash but a lot of people looked like travellers in amongst the locals…there were staff everywhere we waited over 40 mins for our drinks…I had to ask in the end…the meal eventually turned up and looked lovely and was massive…I had ordered little meatballs that turn out it was on 3 quite good sized Brioches buns with onion jam.. the meat balls were so dry you couldn’t break it down….John’s was like a San Choy Bao with Turkey but not Turkey mince bigger than that….licked veggies and they right into cooked chick peas….different for sure….his was edible…mine was far to big for me and to be honest I will have to dissect the meatballs to add flavour and moistness to them to make edible..I did get them as take away due to the fact we usually eat in every few nights so I will revamp them if we have a microwave in one of the rooms…that will be another we shall see won’t we as we make our way from one accommodation to the next…it s always a surprise what will be in each of the abodes….and most don’t supply a kettle but usually a coffee machine..if your lucky 2 coffee bags…fortunately I carry all that but it’s a challenge as each coffee machine is different and you can’t always boil water in them…the joys of travel…

The scenery changed once out of the mountain Hwy to smaller rural hwys…through lots of rural farming areas…lovely little towns and lots of lakes, fast flowing rivers and waterfalls tumbling from the side if the roads.,,all,the lakes were at capacity due to unseasonal rains they have had this week…apparently they are expecting major flooding in some areas around this part of the country…we also noted it must be a massive tourist area through the valley we come through as lots of amusement parks and holiday places by the lakes… all the towns had heaps of really lovely motels….

We arrived very late it was a long day as we had left before 7 this am….staying at a Super 8 accommodation which a slightly better than the 6… we have stayed in both now and both are pretty good…

Tim and Jess had bought me some lovely what’s called strawberry tomatoes due to their shape was having trouble buy smaller tomatoes to use for Brekky on toast…funny thing was we saw cheap fuel, 204.9 which is cheap some have been 226.9 anyway fuelled up, went to the loo and saw it was a brand new supermarket so checked out their tomatoes and maned to get 2 bigger but on the smaller size and some bread…issue will,be I bet I can’t use a toaster anyway..as we will be moteling it from here on nit Airbnb and the don’t have a toaster…..

Anyway I am stocked up and probably can’t use them….🤔😢😢😢😢

Tim and Jess took the normal Hwy here so arrived hours ago…we are whacked …. But had planned to have dinner with them.,,plus they have found a great cocktail bar to go to before dinner,,,,a quick change…and off we set…reminded me if our Bus touring days when the bus got in late you had to literally run to your room once your key was given..quickly change and off to dinner…

The cocktail bar was fantastic and they brew all their own spirts so well set up with massive

The cocktails were very, very strong..,but yummy…so to liven up we asked a few blocks of this quaint lovely town to a restaurant Jess had found called the Old School and that’s what it was…. A massive big old brick building in the style of an old school, on,y countries like this would have…

The meal had by all was lovely..,mine was to spicy sadly so Tim and Jess shared that I had her deep fried polenta chips which were really yummy..,

They were whacked so they headed off to bed we went for a bit if a walk around the downtown section and then back to our motel….you can see the snow capped mountains out our bedroom window..,such a pretty spot to stay…shame we don’t have time to explore it….Read more