Kamloops, BC

Good morning from Canada. Tyler and I made it to Kamloops by 3:00 AM after quite a trip the night before. We reached the border crossing at Sumas around 10:00 but were detained for quite a while. The customs agents were apparently perplexed why two guys were driving into the mountains for no apparent reason in the middle of the night. They asked us the same set of questions three times, and then the same ones separately. They even got tricky - "So don't you even have anything to protect yourself, mace or pepper spray or something?" Pepper spray is obviously illegal here. They searched the car, and made quite a mess, but found nothing of course.

Finally we were on our way. The road was easy enough until we went on the Coquihalla Highway between Hope and Kamloops. At the worst point, there was ice and snow covering the road and snow falling in an entrancing blizzard. We made it through without incident, although my window is pretty muddy this morning.

Arriving in Kamloops we went to the Howard Johnsons, and I was pretty sure that this was the one I had reserved. The grumpy night manager disagreed, so we went further down the road to the correct Howard Johnsons. It's only a so-called 2-star hotel, but it had comfortable beds, hot water, free shampoo, and the wifi that I'm using now. Five stars in my book!