I woke up this morning in Smithers and I was cool. Wow! I don’t know how long it will last so I am enjoying it at the moment. I am staying with Marie-Claude and Daniel, two transplanted Montrealers who wouldn’t live anywhere else but in the shadow of the mountains that surround the town. Lots of skiing and outdoors activity winter and summer. The have a small but cozy house here and our conversations about life and the state of the world were good for my soul.
My drive here was good yesterday. I could see the scenery change as I drove. From long rolling hills I could all of a sudden begin to see mountains again. I haven’t really seen them for some days now. Daniel said that it is a 7 hour drive to Vancouver from here. Really? It has taken me days, over a week I think. If you did the whole road at once though the geography would go through dramatic changes, from the rugged mountains along the Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton and Lillooet road, from green to brown and back to green again, through the rolling ranch lands of Williams Lake and then back to the mountains of Smithers. Daniel tells me that the road from here to Terrace (my stop this afternoon) is very beautiful. I am translating that to mean winding and mountainous. I will see.
Here come the mountains again
Marie-Claude and I took advantage of the clouded afternoon to go for a shady walk through the town of Smithers. It has everything but not too much. A nice size to get to know. It did threaten rain for a while but nothing materialized. I wonder if anyone else got the promised mega thunder and lightning storms. If weather like that brought rain, I think the fire fighters would be happy but apparently as the lightning strikes it only brings more fires.
I went into a state of the art laundromat yesterday. They had everything from clothes washing to showers and internet…even a car wash (which we should have used but didn’t) but it was expensive. I could have asked the woman there to do my laundry for $16.00 per load. That would have included drying I am sure. To do my own was $4 dollars in loonies and for the dryer, .25 for each 4 minutes. Wow! I haven’t been in one of those places for a while so was impressed to find all of the washers, high efficiency, front loading machines. That meant that all of the laundry went into one load and it was almost dry when it came out. I actually didn.t use many quarters in the drier.
Vincent at the museum
In the museum a young man took me on a lively guided tour and I really enjoyed myself. I love history and this guy had a talent at translating it.
Well, off to the great unknown again today. Funny how the cool air seems to inspire cool thinking. The heat is just getting wearing.
Carved Alpine horn blower on the main street
Can anyone figure out why this computer wakes up many mornings with the time advanced one hour. It freaks me out. This morning I think I am working away just after 8 and now it tells me it is almost 9:30. Augh!!! But then I check it and it is an hour fast. It shouldn’t do that. Yesterday it also surprised me by telling me it was Aug. 31. No wonder I am lost in time. I keep having to reset it. Oh well…a small problem really, but annoying.
Talk next time.
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