Getting on the internet is proving a little more difficult than we thought. After Victoria, we caught the ferry at Nanaimo on Vancouver Island to Horseshoe Bay just outside Vancouver. We rode along the Sea to Sky Highway passingh though Whistler and stopping for the night in Pemberton, BC. This part of British Columbia is stunning. While the road to Whistler weas under construction pretty much all the way (the Winter Olympics 2010 will be in the region), the scenery was absolutely superb. Jenny had the best view as Ric concentrated on keeping the bike on the road. We stopped for the night in Pemberton, partly because we thought it would be less expensive than Whistler. I think we were wrong as accommodation choices in Pemberton were limited. In fact, we have found accommodation in Canada to be pretty expensive everywhere - not helped by the big taxes they add on to every bill!
We rode from Pemberton to Kamloops on Saturday 8th. Again, the ride was really scenic and there was not too much traffic. We stopped for a drink at a little town called Lytton and tried chatting with three elderly native American (Canadian?) indians who were sitting on a park bench. One stayed asleep, one was speaking something that was probably english but we could not understand a word and Roy, the talkative one, was almost as incomprehensible. Having thus done our bit to improve NZ/Canadian relations we rode on to Kamloops. Kamloops is a place that did not seem to have much going for it, though it is a sizable city so we headed off early the next morning.
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Right off, Welcome to Canada. It's a real treat to read your blog and to see my country from your perspective. I've lived 63 years in Western Canada traveling, exploring and documenting on film, a good deal of it.
I am very curious about your choice of routes from Vancouver and the lower mainland through to Kamloops using the Pemperton 'Highway'. It's certainly is not your usual tourist route and certainly not well traveled by the locals(and very atypical of Southern BC). Of course I have no real idea --a least not yet, of what you want to see and experience. I will follow you with a great deal of interest on your journey through our country to gain more insight.
As an aside, I have lived half my life in the city of Kamloops and was sorry to see you found it "a place that did not seem to have much going for it". This is a very important observation to me as I am studying outside people's reaction to this community in a documentary I am creating to help my local tourist industry.
I would be honored to show you around the place if you come through Kamloops and area again. I might be able to change your mind just a little and to do my "bit to improve NZ/Canadian relations". LOL
I wish you a very safe journey.
Hi and thanks for following our blog. We really appreciate it. The comment about Kamloops was tongue in cheek. We only spent one night there and were going on motel literature so we propbably should not have made the comment. No offence to the good folk of Kamloops was intended and those we met there were all really friendly. As to the route, as we had no idea where to go, we listened to the many Canadian bikers we met on our journey so that choice was based on their recommendations. They were good recommendations too, because as you will have gathered, we have found BC to be superb for motorcycling. Thanks again for commenting. We probably will not be returning via Kamloops otherwise we'd love to take you up on your kind offer.
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