After a busy week of seeding, we left Louis with about 3 hours of field work to do and hit the road early this morning. Thirteen hours later, we’re nicely settled into our hotel room in Kamloops, BC. When I made the reservation, I didn’t realize that the hotel is located right next to the gas station that we always stop at on our way through Kamloops!

Several of our relatives live along today’s route and we would usually choose to stay with one of them but, of course, we’d also want to spend time visiting with them which would delay our arrival in Vancouver. Since we need to be there for a very special event tomorrow afternoon, we decided that it would be better to take a hotel room tonight and get another early start tomorrow. We’ll save the visiting for the way home.

Though today was mostly about covering distance, we did enjoy a picnic lunch at a rest stop just west of Obed Summit, the highest point on the Yellowhead highway. A few hours later, we also made an unscheduled stop when we discovered that Mount Robson, the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies was almost completely cloud free. Time after time, as we’ve made this trip, we’ve hoped for a glimpse of this majestic giant only to find it shrouded in cloud. Today, we stood on the deck of the visitors centre and watched in awe as only a few small clouds drifted over the mountaintop.