Monday, June 19, 2017

131.9Kms
Today we reached the 6,000Km point since leaving St. John's Newfoundland on our three-part bicycle ride across Canada.

We are half way on this third section from Regina to Victoria and we are loving the hills and curves, forest and mountain vistas and roadside flora and fauna of BC! Even when the wind is at us there is reprieve in rounding a corner or sidling up to a bluff. It was sometimes brutal being hit by wind through Alberta, with no where to turn, literally. Today we saw mountain goat, deer and many birds we know well.
 
In BC, we've been pleased to see that the little towns almost all seem to have things going on. Glenn from the Piapot saloon had commented that the highway straight across the Prairies and changing technology in train shipping had undermined little Prairie towns, but that Ontario and BC had not been so hard hit due to geography.
We've been seeing the outcomes of the highway changes across Canada and have commented on this in previous posts, so we are now seeing the relative well-being of small-town BC. Y also takes pleasure in seeing the lumber yards and also the trains, which we've encounter frequently in all parts of Canada, but more so in the past day and a half in BC. Y's father's father was manager of a saw mill in Austria and she has treasured memories (and photos) from there.


Trains. Well, who doesn't like the whistle and thunder as they arrive, to watch as the cars go by, to imagine what they are carrying and to wonder about the interesting culture of train car graffiti. We really enjoyed our day of riding in the mountains today and ending up in Yahk, BC in plenty of time for Y to participate in a 7pm business telephone conference (a yak from Yahk) to Victoria.

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