Taking the Sabbath off is good on several levels. It turned out that yesterday it rained off and on almost the whole day. We also had a really nice time at church and a great lunch after church with the other members. This morning after our two-day stay at Grand Forks finest Ramada we began … Continue reading Great Trail wk3 d1 →

Yes, I have said it way too many times but again today was a relatively short day. It had to be a short day in order for us to be in a place we could attend church tomorrow. There are not any congregations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in this … Continue reading Great Trail wk2 d6 →

Castlegar to Christina Lake was probably our second hardest day so far but wonderful. We discovered one of British Columbia's treasurer's other than its beauty: a rail trail. This rail trail, the Columbia and Western travels for about a hundred miles. We did about 70 of them today over a mountain pass. The wonderful part … Continue reading Great Trail wk2 d5 →

We left Nelson on our way to Castlegar today. Surprisingly, for a city that gets a fair amount of snow in the winter, Nelson is full of steep hills. Not surprisingly, I picked the motel at the top of the steepest hill. Unfortunately, I continue to do this in almost every place we've stayed. They … Continue reading Great Trail wk2 d4 →

After yesterday, today was something of a recovery day. And what an amazing area to recover. We started the day at Ainsworth, spending a few minutes at the beach in the front of our house doing important things like skipping rocks. We'd be hard-pressed to get one across the 4 km wide and 104 kilometer … Continue reading Great Trail wk2 d3 →

Leaving Kimberley was hard because it was such a wonderful place, but what was even harder is getting to Ainsworth. It was our first Great Divide like day on the Great Trail. It took us over 12 hours to ride across Gray's Creek Pass - about 60 miles of dirt road and then 10 of … Continue reading Great Trail wk2 d2 →

We spent a lovely Sabbath in Cranbrook resting. It seems to be a bit of a Blue Collar town so we felt right at home. Of course the one big difference was that rather than gangs and shootings, Cranbrook was much more dangerous. Everywhere we went there were signs like the one below. It was … Continue reading Great Trail Wk2 D1 →

Our experience in riding from Fairmont to Cranbrook suggests that every single Canadian has an RV. It turns out this is a three-day holiday weekend and it falls in the two weeks they call Summer in Canada. Accordingly, everyone in Canada is out for the weekend in their RV. Now by U.S. standards that's not … Continue reading Great Trail day5 →

Today on our journey from Brisco to Fairmont we learned about eating. I know that our trip to date has been a bit focused on food. This is because last year there were so many long stretches without anything to eat, that this year we started out a bit desperate about food. Additionally, when we … Continue reading Great Trail – day 4 →