So yesterday we woke up to a delightful little rainstorm and unfortunately needed to pack up and head out during the downpour! We enjoyed Cache Creek other then the rain, checked out a local bike shop and got our bikes tuned into tip-top shape, had our first public recognition quote man in truck "hey are you the girls from the new hour?" Yes we are! Love getting recognized, makes us feel like we really are getting our message out there! Also that night at the campground we decided to do some outreach so we donned our costumes and went out to meet our neighbours. We met lots of interesting people with varied opinions and thoughts on what we were doing but we managed to get a good number of postcards sent off to the Prime Minister. We met a great family who were travelling with the their solar powered RV! Awesome! For anyone interested there is a company in Victoria who can outfit RV's with solar panels for around $1000 dollars!
Anyways I'm getting a distracted, so we left Cache Creek around 8:30am got a decent 20km behind us before we met up with Keston who had spent the night on the side of the road after pedalling out of Kamloops to meet us yesterday. He decided to ride in the car with Laurie for the next while so Nadia, JD and I continued on our own to Savona. As usual to decide on a meeting point we just tell each other we will meet at the gas station since typically these towns only have one! Although the other day we spent some time looking for the car since the town didn't even have a gas station and our plan was foiled! Keston joined us for the climb out of Savona, a nice 7km hill! Shockingly enough it wasn't too difficult and well worth the beautiful view of Kamloops Lake from the top! 
Sadly the ride down was much quicker then going up and before we knew it we were facing another massive hill! This is where the hot and sweaty comes in! The sun broke through the clouds and started beating down on us as we began the ascent to Kamloops, a couple hours of cycling in those conditions really wore us down and we were happy to coast down the big hill into Kamloops to our friend 
Will's where we are currently staying. After shower's for everyone we were once again revived and made our way over to TRU for a quick slot on Keston's radio show before a bbq on the campus. Later that night Nadia and I biked over to the North Shore to visit our friend Graeme. It was nice to catch up and have some laughs over a couple of beers especially knowing we didn't have to be up at the break of dawn to bike! The only unfortunate part of the evening (my opinion only) was that we missed the last bus back up the hill so had to ride our bikes up the long Kamloops hills back to Will's something I was trying to avoid at all costs!
Sadly the ride down was much quicker then going up and before we knew it we were facing another massive hill! This is where the hot and sweaty comes in! The sun broke through the clouds and started beating down on us as we began the ascent to Kamloops, a couple hours of cycling in those conditions really wore us down and we were happy to coast down the big hill into Kamloops to our friend 
Will's where we are currently staying. After shower's for everyone we were once again revived and made our way over to TRU for a quick slot on Keston's radio show before a bbq on the campus. Later that night Nadia and I biked over to the North Shore to visit our friend Graeme. It was nice to catch up and have some laughs over a couple of beers especially knowing we didn't have to be up at the break of dawn to bike! The only unfortunate part of the evening (my opinion only) was that we missed the last bus back up the hill so had to ride our bikes up the long Kamloops hills back to Will's something I was trying to avoid at all costs!Today we are having our first rest day of the trip! Although that being said we are still going for a bike ride this afternoon, Kamloops' first critical mass of the year! This morning Nadia and I each did a radio interview and hopefully we can get a couple more in this afternoon. We put on our superhero outfits this morning to head over to the local T.V. station to see if we could get some airtime but unfortunately there were no cameramen on sight. Hopefully they will make it to our send-off at the farmer's market tomorrow morning! So if you by chance get Kamloops local station look for us on the news tomorrow!
We'd love to hear from you guys while we are on the road, it's always nice to hear news from home! Until Later! - Martina
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