I'm lying in my sleeping bag, inside my tent, with all my crap/stuff/gear everywhere. It seems like I brought so much stuff, and haven't used some of it, but other items are used everyday. Haven't touched bike maintenance items, but Rob helped me get my front derailleur figured out this morning. It turns out that the fender was preventing the derailleur from engaging the smallest ring. So this should make tomorrow's pass a little easier.
Breakfast was oatmeal with blueberries and Greek yogurt, then a healthy muffin of some sorts and an orange. A good solid breakfast, but I was hungry all day. First stop was for 3 apricots, 1 plum and a bag of taffy. An hour later my first Tim Horton's stop in Penticton. Had 4 donuts. Usually 4 donuts would register some sort of full feeling, but this just made me hungrier. In Keremeos I had a samosa, sausage roll, vegetarian wrap (which I found nicely wrapped inside a garbage can, but on top of all the rubbish), 2 mini pecan tart pie things and dinner was 3 bananas, Nutella, 2 roast beef sandwiches and a bunch of trail mix.
All that food has likely been put to use already in helping me through the 163km of the day. Ride was good, a bit of a prevailing tail wind, but then got drenched from about 5km outside of Princeton. Pulled into a gas station to get out of the rain and the lady came over the loudspeaker offering me some free hot chocolate to warm up.
Camping just east of town with 3 other folks I ran into in town. They are all doing the typical west to east trans Canada. I'll be in Vancouver in 3 days and I've got WS hosts lined up for all of next week, which will cut down costs and provide solid meals instead of continual snacking.
Off to bed, hope it doesn't rain.
Mid morning snack, getting closer, chuga chuga chuga chuga choo choo.
Breakfast was oatmeal with blueberries and Greek yogurt, then a healthy muffin of some sorts and an orange. A good solid breakfast, but I was hungry all day. First stop was for 3 apricots, 1 plum and a bag of taffy. An hour later my first Tim Horton's stop in Penticton. Had 4 donuts. Usually 4 donuts would register some sort of full feeling, but this just made me hungrier. In Keremeos I had a samosa, sausage roll, vegetarian wrap (which I found nicely wrapped inside a garbage can, but on top of all the rubbish), 2 mini pecan tart pie things and dinner was 3 bananas, Nutella, 2 roast beef sandwiches and a bunch of trail mix.
All that food has likely been put to use already in helping me through the 163km of the day. Ride was good, a bit of a prevailing tail wind, but then got drenched from about 5km outside of Princeton. Pulled into a gas station to get out of the rain and the lady came over the loudspeaker offering me some free hot chocolate to warm up.
Camping just east of town with 3 other folks I ran into in town. They are all doing the typical west to east trans Canada. I'll be in Vancouver in 3 days and I've got WS hosts lined up for all of next week, which will cut down costs and provide solid meals instead of continual snacking.
Off to bed, hope it doesn't rain.
Mid morning snack, getting closer, chuga chuga chuga chuga choo choo.
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| Tim Horton's is my friend. 4 donuts helped fuel the engine. |
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| Climbing outside of Vernon on my way to Kelowna. Climbing with all this weight makes me think twice about gaining weight in the future. |
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| Vancouver here I come. |
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