Nicholas, along with his girls, Kyra and Rudy (the beagle), met me at my campsite and we spent the next four hours talking about our dogs, both wheel-chair bound dogs and others. what a treat that visit was for my last full day in Canada. and what a great setting to meet in. it was a rather surreal scene when we decided to take the dogs for a walk and the two of us then retreated to our dogs to saddle them up, in precisely the same way. that is a scene i probably will never experience again, nor will i forget it. seeing Nicholas manage his wonderful dog made me finally understand why people made the comments they did about Sonntag and do about Leben.
there were only a handful of others in the park today, some of whom walked past my site when Nicholas and his girls were there. needless to say, they had no idea at all what was going on, four dogs, two in wheel-chairs. what they saw today, they will never see again, ever.
after Nicholas and his girls left, i headed off the Victoria and Goldstream Provincial Park. no sooner did we arrive at Goldstream when the rains started again. so much for that new ditty of mine. I thought about staying in one of those cozy KOA cabins tonight so i do not miss the 8:20 ferry to the Seattle area, but decided i needed to stay in stride. if we miss the ferry, we will spend the morning in Victoria and the catch the 2:00 ferry and settle for a lesser goal tomorrow.
my current plan is to cross over by ferry to the states tomorrow and then head toward Spokane, Washington, tomorrow night and then plan each day's goal from where i end up each night, until i get home. we have done 10,000 mikes so far on this trip, with 3000 more left. I figure that with no side trips, the journey home will take 8 days. we'll see.
photos
- Kyra
- Rudy
- nicholas with leben, Kyra
- ed with kyra and leben and erde
- nicholas with kyra and keben
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