Woke up bright and early to beat the rain, out the door by 8 o'clock! We said goodbye to Emily this morning and headed out for Boston Bar.
Just outside of Hope we entered the Fraser Canyon, cruising along with the train tracks and the mighty Fraser to our right and lanes of cars and trucks on our left. One new challenge we are facing today is two lane tunnels! It is rather petrifying to cycle in the dark through blind tunnels that have no shoulder. That said, we made it safely (somewhat) through and are still here to tell the story.
In the past, I have always wondered how Vancouver's garbage got to Cache Creek as I drive this highway quite often and had never noticed garbage trucks. What I realized
today is that you don't see the trucks, you smell them as the garbage is contained within semis that barrel past at lightning speed with great gusts of wind behind them! Sneaky little buggers!
At one point during the ride, we had a train right beside us. the screeching along the tracks nearly blew our eardrums out! It was pretty cool to have cyclists, trains, hundreds of gallons of water, semi-trucks and cars all barreling through the Fraser Canyon together--talk about energy!We are now in Boston Bar, laying down after giant pieces of homemade pie with local fruit--delicious! We are already fuelling up for tomorrow's ride ;)
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