Castlegar to Princeton, B.C.

Some of my travel journal from August 4 on our way back to Victoria from Saskatchewan.

- We are up at 7:30. There is only one shower and it is a curtain so I stay in the van to wash. There are big forest fires at Lilloet and Kelowna areas. This is mining, lumbering, farming, ranching country that is going for the tourist attractions with hot springs, skiing, fishing, boating, wild life, etc. We are on our way by 9:00 cross the Columbia river and go up over the Bonanza Pass - 1553 . Stop at Christina lake for gas and lunch of bacon and eggs and buns. (my pictures did not turn out) We stop in Grand Forks for more groceries. Its hot - 33 degrees -- and smokey, hazy. We go through Osoyoos, Cawston, Keremeos (desert like hills, sage brush and fruit stands on irrigated land). Through Hedley. The Similkameen river runs beside the road. We stop at 3:00 at the Nindick Campsite. Its a bit shabby - right along the river. Pat hooks us up and has a well earned beer. I go down to the river for photos. We are almost to Princeton and so it should be an easy run home tomorrow. We have ginger beef, as sidekick tomatoe spahgetti, frozen carrots and broccoli, salad including the avocado. Red wine and grano padano cheese. Too full to eat our Cherry Garcia Icecream. Dishes and walk to the river again. Still very warm but cools when the sun goes down. No radio or tv tonite. I finish reading my book, A Thousand Splendid Summers.