On the morning of Friday September 19th, I left the house early... around 6:30AM. I headed over to Arturo's place and picked him up and we hit the road. We headed south to Calgary and picked up Chris there. Then we headed west on the Trans-Canada Highway. This would be a driving day, and by evening we made it as far as Kamloops. I don't like driving for prolonged periods of time in darkness, and the days are relatively short at this time of year, so a stop was in order. We had hotel rooms pre-booked in Kamloops so we checked in and settled down. We went out to a local restaurant and then turned in fairly early.
First thing in the morning we were on the road again. We took the Coquihalla Highway, once a toll highway but now free, down to the lower mainland. We blasted through the lower Fraser Valley, through Vancouver, and on to West Vancouver. We caught the Horseshoe Bay Ferry to Nanaimo with only a short wait. It was around 1:00 when we caught the ferry, and by the time we got off at the other side, it was around 3:00. We stopped in at a grocery store and then headed up the Island for an hour to Courtenay. We checked in to the house that we had rented for the next week. This is the same house that I stayed at with Margarit and the girls back in 2016. I stayed a second time in 2019 when I visited with my friends Rob and Brad. It was just as comfortable and homey as ever.
We headed over to a nearby restaurant for dinner, and then later in the evening settled in at the house and got unpacked for our upcoming stay.
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