Aside from brunch at Havana and a quick stop at the Super Saver to pick up groceries, today was mainly a day for highway travel. Having spent the first 3 days of our journey lollygagging in the vicinity of the coast the time was more than ripe for getting a sizable chunk of road between us and the Pacific Ocean. We drove over 500km east of Vancouver past many scenic vistas along the Trans-Canada and Coquihalla Highways to Yard Creek - a fittingly pedestrian name for a park who's most winning attribute, as noted in it's own brochure, is the reliable availability of campsites.
Now, before you get the urge to scold me for slagging a provincial park (I didn't write that brochure, you know) I should add the park has suited our purposes very well. We've found our lovely wooded campsite to be amply sized and offering an adequate degree of privacy. It's also reasonably-priced (campsites are $20/night with a maximum occupancy of 4 persons, bundles of campfire wood are $5). It may not have much to offer in the way of hiking trails, but that's easily overlooked with the promise of Revelstoke and Glacier National Park located just down the highway. We hope to arrive at Revelstoke tomorrow morning. If you've been to these parks and have any suggestions for things we should do or hikes we should check out, we'd love to hear them!
And speaking of tomorrow morning, it's time for this sleepy traveller to hit the proverbial hay (unroll my Thermarest and crawl into my sleeping bag). G'night!
1 comment:
I look forward to following your progress and sharing your adventure, albeit vicariously.
TH
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