T0 GOLDEN 51N 116W

The layover in Kelowna lasted a couple of days. We borrowed electricity from Gordon & Sara and played with the youngest grandson. Teenage grandaughters were busy texting.

 Solar Powered Airplane

Solar Powered Boat (floating in Mother's Roasting Pan)

Hang Glider (Trying to Score One on Poppa)

Solar Furnace (Almost Set Poppa`s Sleeve on Fire)

Great hospitality and companionship. Many thanks to Ashley who surrendered her room and to Cassi who tolerated grandparently affection and Poppa`s TCM movies.

2011 05 29 Filling our water tank with Kelowna water, we roll north east. EsDora has several idiosyncracies but manages the ups and downs of the Kootenays. Stop at Needles for a cable ferry across the Lower Arrow Lake. Take on supplies in Nakusp. Up the hill to over night at the Nakusp Hot Springs. We soak with bodies from three continents. Photographing the local swarm of hummingbirds yields indifferent results:

Nakusp Hot Springs & the Flight of the Humming Birds

N50 17.753` W117 41.158`

The kids of Nakusp had a tile making contest and left this one for me.



2011 05 30 Off to Galena Bay. EsDora 2 waits politely behind a serious long vehicle.

Our highway system has it`s own Navy.

Upper Arrow Lake: Galena Bay to Shelter Bay on Hwy 23

Letting deboarding traffic pass gives EsDora a chance to loaf along without obstructing others.

A Mission Rule is that we drive about 4 hours a day. 4 hours through the Rogers Pass finds us approaching Golden, the Civic Campsite and a spot close enough to the Office to receive WiFi. Hence this report.

EsDora by the Kicking Horse River, Golden BC

N51 17.844 W116 57.061

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