The trip from Lake Louise to Kamloops was uneventful, just beautiful scenery, sunny skies, and relatively empty roads. We arrived in Kamloops around 4:00, and we were considering staying overnight because it is a four-hour drive to Vancouver and there was a good possibility that it would be dark when we arrived. I did not really want to be driving around a strange city in the dark, after 5.5 days of driving, and neither did Shirl. So we called Mac and he was confident that we would make it before dark, so we decided to go for it.
Most of the traffic seemed to be going in the other direction, which was great. The only freaky thing for me was the speed limit of 120. Even in the prairies it was only 110, and here we were on a three-lane, twisty-turny road, the Coquihalla Highway, flying up and down these mountains. There were runaway lanes for trucks, and several places where truck drivers were instructed to pull over and check their brakes before proceeding.
I did not like going that fast on that road, and I don't like riding the brake down steep roads, so when I was driving I stayed in fourth gear all the way down. I can understand 120 on the prairies, but not on a mountain road, but that is just me.
We survived that adventure, and arrived just as the sun was going down. What a trip!
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