Oct 18 & 19, 2011; Salmo BC to Missoula Montana

OCT 18, Tuesday, on the road to Salmo, BC.
The adventures begin once again! After saying goodbye to everyone, we left at 09:30 am. We drove on Hwy 1 to Sorrento where we stopped to pick up our 6 months supply of pills. They were short some and we would have had to wait over an hour, more or less so we made arrangement to have the missing pills ship to Arizona. We got on the highway again and just before Revelstoke, we turned south on Hwy 23. We missed the ferry by 10 minutes and had to wait an hour for the next one. Once across, we drove to Nakusp where we fuelled and turned on Hwy 6. That was a very tortuous road and hard on my attention span which isn’t that great at the best of time. My “exhaust Jake” decided to act up and stopped working!? I hope this is NOT a sign of things to come!? We managed to arrive in Castlegar without incident and drove East on Hwy 3 to Salmo where we stopped for the night. We paid $35 for electricity only; the water was turned off yet no rebate!? That’s the Canadian way, hey!
We’re inside warm and cozy and relaxing. Tomorrow, we will enter in the USA.

N 49* 11.267
W 117* 22.267
Alt: 2405 feet

We drove 268 miles (427 Km) in 5 hrs, 45 minutes. We left at 0930 am and stopped at 5 pm in Salmo, BC. Fuel was $1.299/litre


OCT 19, Wednesday, Salmo BC to Missoula, Montana
I was up at 5 am, Val at 6:30 and we were on the road by 7:30am. We stopped in Salmo to mail a birthday card then headed south on Hwy 6 to the US Border. We had a token search, lost one tomato and a bag of green onions. We were across in no time and got on Hwy 31 south. This highway was as bad as Hwy 6 in BC with lots of curves and switchback, downward, thank goodness! We stopped for fuel @ 4.199 and carried on. Eventually we arrive to Hwy 2 where we turned east to Sandpoint, Idaho. I topped up at 3.99/gal then it was east and south on Hwy 200 to Missoula. This was a very nice highway with speed limit of 70 mph. Unfortunately, the whole day was cloudy and foggy so we didn’t get to see much. In Missoula, we camped at the KOA campground and paid $28 per night. We paid for two as I am going to Schwartz tomorrow and Val wants to do some shopping. We arrived here at 4 pm our time (5 Mountain Time, here in Missoula). I topped up at $3.939/gal. We have full hook up except water so had to fill our water tank. WIFI is also available for free. By the way, the sun came out just as I finished setting up!!

N 46* 53.850
W 114* 02.598
Alt: 3182 feet
We travelled 320 miles (515Km) at an average of 50 mph in 6 hrs 20 minutes. We also got propane for $21.50 US.