Golden, BC

We're back where we slept the first night we owned the bus only on the other side of the highway. We got Kerri married off over the weekend, ate too much, visited with numerous relates and left town this morning late enough to miss rush hour. All in all a pretty successful visit.

The wedding was at the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, Jericho clubhouse. In case you don't know the RVYC has something like 9 or 10 locations. The one we were at is at the west end of Jericho beach. It was a pretty spectacular setting for an afternoon and evening wedding. Just at dusk the groom's stepmother took over the microphone for a few minutes to point out that there was an island mirage rising out of the western horizon. We were seeing islands that she said were over 100 miles away and very seldom visible. She should know - she used to race sailboats. Kerri's husband has been a member of RVYC since he was 10 years old. We had a great visit with his father over breakfast Sunday morning. He told us that he signed both of his boys up when they were 10 because that meant that by the time they were 30 they would have put in the necessary 20 year wait to get a moorage.

We left Capilano this morning and got briefly disoriented but quickly got back on course. Then we had to wander around Abbotsford for a while to find diesel fuel but thank goodness we did because it was $1.31 there and as high as $1.45 the rest of the day. We rolled into Golden right about dark and parked by the Husky, thinking that they would have wifi but they didn't. We could see some unsecured sites but the strongest one wanted a password eventually and we would have had to stay in the hotel to get the password so that wasn't on. So we moved ahead a few hundred yards and found another hotel with an unsecured access point. Its really amazing how many unsecured sites there still are. I keep expecting that evenually people will figure out how to implement security and the sites will no longer be available but so far it hasn't happened. So we're stealing a little bit of internet from some place called the Golden somethingorother - can't remember what it is right now.

Tomorrow - Calgary. And then on to Saskatoon and maybe even Candle Lake for the weekend.