We woke up New Years Day with a flat car battery (was that an omen?). In the end it seemed that the flat battery was Murphy's law run backwards: if something already went wrong nothing else will.
We had a bit of snow on the road between Enterprise, NWT and High Level, Alberta. It was bad enough in the right hand lane that I probably drove 200 km in the left hand lane which had been cleared by cars coming north. By the time we got to the Zima turn off the road conditions improved in a big way. That night we made it all the way to Peace River.
The next day the Gods were smiling on us. After an hour or two of fog on the road to Valleyview all the roads cleared up completely. By 2:00 we were leaving Jasper and by 2:00 pacific time we were heading past Valemont BC. It was at that time that we called our friends on Saltspring and found out that there was a remote chance that we could make the 9:30 ferry. In fact we made that ferry with 360 seconds to spare! We have a picture of the car on the ferry that I'll try to upload.
Saltspring was a great little rest between our big travel legs. Chloe and Maia got to play with their Grampa and Gramma. Riah and I had a beautiful walk in the sunshine after going past Beaver Point Hall where we were married over 15 years ago. My friend Gary and I took a hike in the snow the next day up on Mt Erskine. It was like a car wash for the soul. I did wash the car on the island as well.
Somehow Riah managed to get our Indonesian visas and passports from the Indonesian consulate and return to Saltspring with a rental car. That car got us to Vancouver the next day and to the airport. The only hitch the morning of the big flight was going to get Riah's glasses in downtown Vancouver. For that I sprinted up to the Canada line station and trained up to the TD building in Vancouver. Up to the 14th floor; grabbed the glasses; sprinted back to the train and zoomed out to the airport.
We were about to check in when we couldn't find the passports...
Where could they be? We're they left at the hotel?
Somehow, they got lost in one of the bags we were going to check. Relieved, we got through check in and made the 13 hour flight to Hong Kong.
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