20th May - Cariboo to Vancouver

Today was our long journey. We said goodbye to our 100 Mile House hosts and met at Tim Horton's coffee house where we met up with Tim, Christee, Kit and Gary, who had travelled down from Quesnel en route to Victoria for the District Conference and who had agreed to give the team a lift to Tsawwassen on their way to Vancouver Island. The journey was over 500kms and we expected it to take around 6 or 7 hours. We loaded up our suitcases and hit the road at 10am. This is the snow scene that we left at 100 mile house.

The journey was easily the most scenic we have ever taken and took us through the Frazer Canyon which was spectacular (pictures to be uploaded tomorrow). We stopped a few times including one stop at an Elvis Cafe where the owner refused to allow us to use the loo as we only wanted to buy coffee (perhaps the only occasion where we have met a miserable Canadian in 4 weeks!). Tim's wife had generously provided lunch which was lovely (she had also provided pretzels dipped in a garlic sauce which were superb) and we joined the trans-Canada highway and made our way to Tsawwassen and to Gary's home.
The weather was a complete contrast to the morning snow and we sat in the garden sunbathing in 20+ degrees of beautiful sunshine -

We were joined in a pot luck dinner (another superb feast) by members of Tsawwassen Rotary Club and had a great evening getting to know our new host club. Tomorrow morning we will make a presentation to them before getting the ferry to Victoria, Vancouver Island.
Greg