Day 7 - July 16, 2010 1:30 PM

July 16, 2010
1:30 PM

We got up in Revelstoke and got packed up and left the hotel by 10:00 AM.

We decided to eat on the road so we went to a "genuine MacDonald’s". We got there just as they were stopping serving breakfast so had an interesting mix of leftover breakfast food and lunch.

We headed out and stopped at a few tourist traps including helicopter rides to look at the valley and a ghost town. Prices looked a little high so we continued on.

Saw a moose crossing sign and a first, also a cow crossing sign.

At 1:00 PM we had the closest call to a car accident that we have had so far. P was driving and a red truck slammed their breaks on 80 to 0 without any regard for people behind them P was not following too close, but the sudden stop was very unexpected. P's quick reaction time of slamming our breaks and swerving onto the shoulder avoided the accident. We had to pull over and collect ourselves for a few minutes. There were 4 or 5 cars behind us they also had to swerve as well as a couple trucks. That red truck driver could have caused a 5 or 6 car pile up. Pretty scary.

P continued driving until we hit Vernon BC where we stopped for drinks. Temperature is 27 C. We are around 100 KM away from our destination in Summerland.