Planet Simpson: 680 km: Nakusp To Vancouver... No Problem!

Wednesday, December 08, 2004

680 km: Nakusp To Vancouver... No Problem!

We managed to convince Mom and Mike to do some last-minute dogsitting of Pony, and made our dogless departure of Nakusp this morning with (we hoped) enough time to make the Galena Bay ferry. One of those magical Canadian highway vortices, the 48 km Nakusp-to-Galena Bay stretch takes half an hour no matter how fast you drive. The ferry leaves at half past the hour, every hour. If you leave the house with 28 min to reach the ferry, you'll miss it. Period. Why, I dunno.

The conditions were, well, "snowy". We were out there preparing the car at least an hour before we had to be at the ferry dock, books and bags on board and Pony in the house, staring accusingly down at us from the livingroom window as Turner cleaned off the last of the morning's dump of snow.

T cleans off car - SM.JPG
(Ten days ago we were in Malaysia and it was 30C. I'm just saying.)

Most of the drive to Revelstoke looked like this:
Revelstoke drive - SM.JPG

Treacherous!

After we passed through Three Valley Gap and were well on our way to Salmon Arm, however, things started to look a little cheerier:
Salmon Arm road - SM.JPG

And spirits remained high through to about Merritt:
Merritt road - SM.JPG

But, yeah... this is about the size of it, coming down off the heights of the Coquihalla, traffic backed up on the other side of the highway for kilometres. It was a bit jiggly, a lot icy, it was snowing and blowing, and we did most of the last 30km in to Hope at about 45km/h. Overall your basic Canadian long-haul winter driving experience. The things we do for Turner's art.
Coquihalla jiggle - SM.JPG

But we made it to the Fraser Valley without incident, and now we're safe and sound, ensconced in our schmancy room at the Hotel Vancouver, downtown. Up tomorrow, a sickeningly early 4:30am start for an American radio interview, then to CBC for Sounds Like Canada, and onward to CTV later in the morning for Vicki Gabereau... stay tuned!

Posted by Ashley at 10:17 PM (-07:00 GMT)

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