Post #320833 by Sweet Daddy Tiki on Tue, Jul 24, 2007 12:17 AM

Been in Seattle a whole day now. This is our first internet access since Calgary last Tuesday so there's much catching up to do.

Day 2: Calgary to Vernon, BC

Departed Gary's uncle's house in Calgary shortly after 9 am. Thanks for the hospitality, Laurie.

Lunch: On a whim we pulled off the highway at Heather Mountain Lodge between Golden and Revelstoke BC to have some fancy resort vittles. The menu is heavy on locally produced foods, some of it grown in their own gardens.

The food was outstanding and so was the mountain view from our Adirondac chairs on the balcony.

Just outside Vernon we passed the Starlight Drive-In movie theatre. It would have been great to go to a drive-in movie again (it's been decades) but the double bill of Surf's Up and Evan Almighty didn't inpsire us to make the 15 minute trip from town.

In Vernon we stayed at the Tiki Village Motel, which Slacks Ferret and I first checked out two years ago on our way back from the first tiki event at the Waldorf (though we didn't stay there). The only tikis we found at that time were a couple of small tourist items in the office. Look what Gary and I found in our room:

That shade has got to go.

After freshening up we headed to Value Village where we bought nothing.

A big thumbs down from Gary.

They were selling these in a store in downtown Vernon:

Pirate graffiti:

Tomorrow: Kamloops Thrift Extravaganza.

-Sweet Daddy T.
Because crap doesn't buy itself.

My new blog

[ Edited by: Sweet Daddy Tiki 2007-07-24 00:20 ]