Sun Peaks - Driving

Hurray, we have left our dingy hotel in Valemount with the loudest, most sleep-disturbing plumbing in the world. We set off bright and early for 320km through the mountains. It was a lovely journey although we are finding ourselves becoming numb to the awesome sights and the wildlife. First stop to get some petrol. Now most of North America is in uproar at the massive recent increases in petrol prices. How much? We are paying about 55p litre. We are laughing everytime we fill the tank because it costs so little versus the UK. And there is none of this fancy unleaded stuff it is Leaded regular, Leaded premium and Leaded Super-premium. Our muscle-car (Hyundai :)) seems to be doing just fine on the regular.

Logging seems to be one of the primary activities here, and we certainly passed a number of massive trucks carrying monster tree-trunks on the journey. Quite exciting overtaking on the single-lane mountain roads, particularly in an automatic Hyundai, they certainly seem very long when you are alongside them. Vicky might disagree with the word exciting!

Found the Sun Peaks resort with the help of TomTom which found it quickly, although it did try and send us down a logging track with no through road signs on first, sure it would have been a shorter journey but not sure how the car would have liked it. Sun Peaks is a ski resort with lovely scenery, although no snow right now. One thing we love about Canada is that all the hotels seem to have pools and hot tubs, even the really small ones. So we relaxed after our journey sitting in the hot tub, in the rain, admiring the view.