The Five Hour Road Trip

Revelstoke Bridge

Doral, Anita and Meighan picked me up from an appointment at the South Campus Health Hospital.

They were picking up hiking boot while I was having an appointment with the hip surgeon.

My appointment ended before their shopping was done and there is a MEC store in the Seton Place Shopping District.

Meighan Johnson in Revelstoke

Anita told me she loves socks and this is the place to get fashion and comfort: socks that wick perspiration, climbing gear, and tools for camping.

The canoes, the kayaks the running shoes, the back packs are all on one floor and even I never have wanted to rock climb, I still wanted to buy the gear – everything so beautiful.

Meighan was our barometer as to when we stopped.

Each town her dad would ask her if she were hungry.

“No, I am fine.”

So we travelled straight through until Revelstoke at which time she wanted an A&W teen burger.

Revelstoke isn’t a place where there are a lot of choices about places to eat.

But she only needed that choice and the rest of us needed a stretch.

That is the longest I have ever travelled going out to BC without a break. Anita says that once Doral is in the car he wants to drive straight through – no tourist stops.

To the west of the A&W parking lot is a beautiful park for children.

The trees in it were in full bloom.

There is a running trail that follow by the river and probably a long path that goes under the bridge.

There is both the feeling of being in extreme nature and surrounded by technology for the hydro lines cut a swath across the mountains to the west, carrying electricity from the dam to hundreds of thousands of people.

This is a beautiful place to stop and consider, though I am not quite sure in which direction the consideration should go.

Arta