Lack of sleep, jet lagged (only slightly) and hungover I got up at a reasonable hour to munch down the included breakfast at the hostel, I took a few more bagels for a snack later in the day and shovelled as much food as I could.
I packed my things and met with Steph who hired a car and took me on my way to Kelowna, I paid for the first fuel up and we went around the city to places where Steph wanted to take photos of some of the sights albeit a bit random of things, it was still good fun.
The things he wanted to take photos of were the 'welcome to Vancouver' sign, East Hastings road where all the bums hung out and we drove around a neighbouring town for quite a while looking for a statue of Terry Fox.
I kept Steph company for most of the journey apart from when I was kipping; Steph was a great guy and we had some good laughs in the car on the way to K town.
We stopped off in Merrit where we refueled and went looking for a library so that I could use skype and call Christina it see if I could stay at hers. Apparantly the Library was closed but an incredibly friendly couple (James and Gloria) invited us to their place and let us use their internet and offered us food and drink. After some good banter with Gloria and a skype call we were on our way. Unfortunately Christina couldn’t host me cause she was headed to a party outside of town, but one night in a hostel was just fine.
Steph asked me to join him to Lake Louise where he was going to go skiing... it sounded like a great idea as I have missed boarding and I made the effort to get in contact with one of my friends in Kelowna to see if I could borrow some boarding gear. It was all going well until he called his mate who he was meeting up with in Vernon and asked whether I could crash at his place and he refused. Now I wouldnt have been an issue with sleeping in my tent in the middle of nowhere and to be picked up in the early morning but because Stephs friend refused without hesitation I considered him to be a bit of a twat and to be honest I would want to spend 10 hours in a car there and back with a person who isnt open for freely meeting others let alone snowboarding with this guy all day. And of course no disrespect to Steph with his choice of friends he is a great guy and I reckon Ill catch catch up with him in Toronto when I pass through there in a couple of months because thats where he is from.
I checked into the Samesun hostel again in Kelowna where they had done some major renovation making it even better than before and the inclusion of a hot tub makes this hostel - in my mind - the best hostel ive ever stayed at.
I met some other tree planters in the hostel (Godfree and Chris) and in the evening went over to Keelans place to had a chat about my cycle trip (Keilan sold me his bike to do my trip from Vancouver to Mexico). It was a chilled night with no alcohol involved and I headed back to the hostel and crashed hard. After travelling for the past 3 or so days I was beyond nackard and was in dire need to sleep.
Bums on East Hastings Road, Vancouver
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