To Kamloops, and Beyond!

Hey everyone!

Well, we've officially broken the 500km mark from Horseshoe Bay to Kamloops. This has been our first day off since leaving Abbotsford and our butts are very thankful for it.
The hills are starting to get easier to pedal up, which is good because we have some long ones coming up in the next couple of days.
For the most part our accommodation thus far have been great. We camped the first two nights, but both places had running water and hot showers. Our third night, Stephen and Carol paid for us to stay at the Totem Hotel in Lytton (They had cable there, so I was able to catch some of game six of Montreal vs. Pittsburgh!). After Lytton we cycled up to Cache Creek where we stayed with Megan's friends at there ranch (for the purpose of keeping this blog relatively short, I won't go into a description of it, but trust me when I say, it was awesome!).
The views have been absolutely incredible. There's a feeling of being sent back to the Old West, especially when the trains can be seen across the river coming around the bend of a mountain.
From a distance, the hills look green because of the sage bushes that cover the ground.
We saw a coyote the other day. It popped out from the one of the bushes, looked at us for a second as we looked back at it, then it disappeared down the hillside.
We also saw two mountain goats grazing on a cliff above the highway, and a few hundred metres down the road from them, we saw the leg bone from a First Nations burial ground that had fallen into the ditch during a rock slide.

That brings us to Kamloops now, where we have been running errands, getting ready for the next stretch.

All is well. We hope it is with you too.

Jeremy, Megan, Christian, and Jenna