Friday, August 30
Before leaving Cardston, I realized that we would be crossing Canada without our GPS. I spent some time in the morning pouring over the maps so we would be familiar with the road ahead. We left Cardston so grateful to have made new friends and met a distant relative. Brother Cahoon is an accomplished, professional flutist and gave us one of his CD’s for the trip. Beautiful music to travel by!
Another day of nothing. At one intersection, we thought we would stop for gas, but on further inspection, thought it would make a better picture than a stop!
We stopped in Sparwood, in the heart of Elk Valley. Sparwood is the Eastern entrance to British Columbia and marked the end of farming and the beginning of mountains and trees. These giant Titans are still used for mining in the area and are HUGE.
We made our way into Nelson around early evening. Our first impression of the town was that it was beautiful. The downtown area is along a lovely waterfront with lots of sailboats. Unfortunately our accommodations fell through and we chose to move on to the next closest town for the night.
We had to take a ferry across to the town of Crawford Bay and found a fantastic Airbnb.
It was brand new and we were the first guests. As you can see from the house next door – they were renovating the area! Lol.
The area turned out to be safe and friendly and full of artisans. We loved our little apartment and could have stayed longer.
Living All In 