Last day on the road in BC

It was a good move to drive down to Squamish on yesterday’s trip, instead of staying up in Whistler.   Although the weather was better, to start off, there was a great deal of low cloud hanging around the mountaintops, so I suspect it would have been a bit foggy higher up.

On the way out of town, the cloud cleared enough for me to glimpse the local mountain which I missed yesterday, then it was right on to highway 99 back down from the sky to the sea.

Not quite as hairy as on the way up, the journey was still ‘fun’ with the odd rain shower greasing up the road a bit. – fast greasy corners always seem so much worse when you are sat on what still feels like the wrong side of the car.

Before I knew it I was driving over the Lions Gate Bridge in to downtown Vancouver, continuing to upset the lady in the sat-nav by ignoring her as the way I wanted to go looked nicer. I didn’t stop in Vancouver itself as I wanted to get to the airport and check-in, so my only picture of the city was from behind the wheel.  Eventually I gave in to the lady’s insistent tones, and let her lead me in the direction she wanted to go.

680 Kilometers after leaving Victoria finds me pulling in to the car rental drop off at the airport.  An excellent, at times awe inspiring, always interesting, two and a half days in a part of the world I did not know until now.  A great bit of me-time, now its back to reality and the UK for a conference in Stratford-upon-avon - another nice place, I used to live there – no mountains though.