West Kootenays Road Trip — Finale

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Alright, I know I was doing really well, post­ing every day, even with some pic­tures. But then noth­ing for day 4 or 5! I apol­o­gize. It’s amaz­ing how hard it can be to make time on a vaca­tion where you really have no plans or com­mit­ments. Ha!

So, where I left off we were in Nakusp for the night. The next morn­ing (Sat­ur­day), we wan­dered around Nakusp a lit­tle bit. Had break­fast in The Mid­dle Earth Cafe (which was AWESOME) and then wan­dered down to the lit­tle farmer’s mar­ket, then along the beach for a while. Sadly, even­tu­ally, we had to leave town.

We went South from Nakusp, and took the Nee­dles Ferry. This ferry was tiny (but not as tiny as the Shafts­bury Ferry I took a cou­ple weeks ago near Fairview) and has 3 ropes stretched across the river, and pul­lies on the Ferry, and a giant winch, just pulling the thing back and forth across. It was only a short ride, but nice to get out in the wind, on the water (the tem­per­a­ture was between about 30 and 35 degrees C while we were there).

Brian’s dad lives in Ver­non, so that’s where we stopped and stayed Sat­ur­day night. The 3 of us went out for din­ner at The Ital­ian Kitchen Com­pany, and it was reeeally deli­cious. Enough so that I brought my left­overs all the way home to Cal­gary. Ha!

We left Ver­non early Sun­day morn­ing, and drove straight back to Cal­gary, stop­ping only for a quick lunch in Golden on the way.

Got back to Cal­gary around 3pm, show­ered, napped briefly, put some laun­dry in, and then went out to my dad’s 62nd birth­day party.

All-in-all, an awe­some lit­tle 5-day-escape. I love the area, and can’t wait to go back.

Oh, and PS… Brian and I are still shop­ping for a West­falia. We are look­ing for some­thing from about ’86 – ’91. We looked at one last night that looks awe­some. The body (inte­rior and exte­rior) are in awe­some shape, it’s got all sorts of great added bits – power win­dows and locks and lit­tle fur­nace. We’re lean­ing towards buy­ing it, but want to look at some oth­ers before tak­ing the plunge. Shouldn’t buy the first one you look at, right? But what if it’s awe­somely perfect?

PPS – We leave on another lit­tle excur­sion tomor­row some­time. This week­end we’re headed to Saskatchewan for some ghost town hunt­ing. As per usual, we’ll do our best to post some updates, and our progress map. And pic­tures.