Jono's Travel Blog

18/08/2010

Caught up with Keelyn today (a guy who I worked with treeplanting) to have a look at the bicycle I will be buying from him, it’s a light weight racing hybrid bike that has already down the trip from Vancouver to mexico. It had been locked up away for the past 5 years and was in pretty bad shape although Keelyn was willing to pay the price of getting a new front wheel, a tune and a fix-up of any other issues. Ill be getting the bike for $350 hopefully with the old panniers he had lying about in his garage.

Keelyn and his girlfriend Carly invited me to stay at their place for the night too, so I didn’t need to pay for another night at the hostel.

Again, today I gathered a bunch of people from the hostel to go and play some volleyball but it was much hotter out today and playing volleyball against and with people who seem to be totally un-coordinated isn’t that great; especially an Aussie chick we met on the walk to the courts who literally just fell over every time the ball would come close to her. We would have won the game if our teem kept on serving the ball to her but after a while we felt kinda sorry for the girl.

Anyways, I got back to the hostel where some Mexicans I had met last night had invited myself and Megan to an end of season cherry pickers party in east kelowna, we decided to go picking up some beer on the way. It was a bit of a mix of people mostly from Quebec but the orchard was owned by an East Indian family who get the land from the government if they come to the country to work on it, paying back the money when they make a profit from the crops.

It was a good night simply chatting to everyone and chilling around.

After, Meg and I got a ride rack to the hostel where I squeezed in a few games of ping pong before taking all my gear to Keelyn’s place.

I hadn’t really eaten much all day so I stopped by safeway for a quick snack, I got chatting to the checkout chick (Sarah) about tattoos and metal music and in the brief 2 minutes of talking to her I ended up with her number.