After the usual continental breakfast, we set out from Vancouver-the nuclear weapons free zone- for a days’ trip into the mountains and to Kelowna. I had my ideas and my memories of what the trip would be like, but of course, for the kids it’s all new. To coax them to keep looking out the window we started a game called H2O, where you had to yell out "H20!" if you saw a river, a waterfall or a roadside stream. If you got to thirty you win a chocolate bar. That got them interested.
So, we passed through Hope, and then stopped at the landslide site outside of town. The kids were all giddy and silly, so we had to bring them down to earth before we got out of the car, but they soon tuned in to the reality of what they were looking at. Since the landslide there were also two plane crashes at the same location. We picked up a few souvenir stones.
The highway was pretty interesting for the next couple of hours all the way to Princeton, then things flattened out a bit, but there were still lots of curves as the road followed the Simiklameen River. We kept going until the little town of Keremeos, where we got some HUGE cherries. Cows, cattle grazing. Some boredom thrown in. No mountain goats yet. To Penticton was only a half hour, but from Penticton to Kelowna was another hour and half! The traffic was really heavy. This whole area is booming. WOW. We made it by 5:30. Yahoo!
"British Columbia is not like Hamilton in any way. In Hamilton you have to look south to see a mountain, but in BC you can see mountains fifty times bigger than our mountain in any direction." quoted by I.
So, we passed through Hope, and then stopped at the landslide site outside of town. The kids were all giddy and silly, so we had to bring them down to earth before we got out of the car, but they soon tuned in to the reality of what they were looking at. Since the landslide there were also two plane crashes at the same location. We picked up a few souvenir stones.
The highway was pretty interesting for the next couple of hours all the way to Princeton, then things flattened out a bit, but there were still lots of curves as the road followed the Simiklameen River. We kept going until the little town of Keremeos, where we got some HUGE cherries. Cows, cattle grazing. Some boredom thrown in. No mountain goats yet. To Penticton was only a half hour, but from Penticton to Kelowna was another hour and half! The traffic was really heavy. This whole area is booming. WOW. We made it by 5:30. Yahoo!
"British Columbia is not like Hamilton in any way. In Hamilton you have to look south to see a mountain, but in BC you can see mountains fifty times bigger than our mountain in any direction." quoted by I.
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