It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best since you have to sweat up hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate rememberance of a country you have driven throgh as you gain by riding a bicycle


Ernest Hemingway




Sunday, 15 May 2011

Things can only get better ! (thur 12th May)

Left Vancouver this morning with fairly decent weather, found a camping superstore and stocked up on camping gas and freeze dried boil on the bag, got drenched leaving Vancouver , the highlight being stuck on a flyover in the torrential rain trying to locate the ferry port, oh and then got a flat. However sun soon came out and dried off on the short ferry to Langdale and the' Sunshine Coast' not sure what the literal translation of sunshine is in Canadian but given it's now about 5 degrees and raining as I lie on my tent in a sleeping bag fully dressed I think something has got lost somewhere, am now worried that I will spend the next 6 weeks obsessing about the weather and writing about little else. Am spending the night in porpoise bay provincial park and had hoped for a hot shower but given that I seem to be the only one here I think it may be a little early in the season.


Oh well forecast is better for tomorrow. Around 48 miles today , should be more tomorrow. Highlight of the day? Looking in my rear view mirror to see a brief glimpse of bright blue sky, snow capped mountains and a long straight empty highway.




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