Journey Notes

This morning, Lyle, one of our hosts, literally rode me out of town. He took me on a route that avoided one big hill for the start of the day. It was a late but fine start to the day that was sunny and had very little wind.

Unfortunately as the day progressed, the wind picked up and it was a headwind. I fought that for the rest of the day. The winding road provides a high view of the Shuswap lake (the Salmon Arm of Shuswap Lake) and eventually drops down at the east end in the town of Sicamous. There were lots of flats from Sicamous to Craigellachie (where the last spike was driven on the Canadian National Railroad) but the headwinds kept my speed pretty low. Rochelle caught up to me just before Craigellachie and we stopped there for lunch.

The last 45km felt like it was all uphill with a headwind. I am pretty exhausted, having travelled 103km for the day. More exhausted that I would have expected even given the wind (maybe it's the 667km I've done in a week) so tomorrow might be a rest day before attacking Rogers pass. There is some bad weather coming in, maybe by Tuesday, so I was hoping to get as far east as I could to possibly miss that. Let's just hope that this storm is not too bad.

We've stopped at a nice campground on the west side of Revelstoke so we have a nice place for an extra day's stay. I don't think that I've ever really done anything here other than buy gas on the highway so exploring Revelstoke tomorrow will be a nice break.

Tonight Rochelle made "Chilpotle Pizza" with no carbs and no oven. Amazing!