Safe and warm on the west coast

Well the Kidney Komedy tour van arrived safely in New Westminster last night. It is a long drive but it was necessary to go by ground given the number of people, amount of prizes and equipment that was travelling.
The weather was warm and sunny the whole way and loads of fun with the gang. This time of year is a great time to see the mountains as it is still warm and most of the tourists with their gawking eyes and big RVs have called it quits for the year. BC lacks a lot of passing lanes and many of the large RV types lack
1- speed
2- drivers that know when to pull over and let the parade by
3-drivers with mountain driving skills!!
The ones I detest the most are the rental RVs that have site seeing tourists that have never driven the mountains (or Canada) before. If they are an old retired couple...you can just watch your good driving time slip away. Most of those seemed to be parked for the season thankfully.
We had one camper trailer near Revelstoke that I am sure pissed off a lot of fully loaded truckers that wanted to do more than 80 kph this guy could muster! Once he pulled off for fuel the traffic flow sped up considerably. Can't some of the fuel tax in this country be put back into building more 4 lane highways as our American neighbours do? BC seems to be riddled with way to many skinny little sections of pavement.

We had some nice wild life encounters and got some great pics. I had not seen a bear for over 2 years and yesterday we saw 2 and got within 20 feet of one beside the highway. Cool. Yogi was shy and rumbled off into the woods shortly after we stopped to take his pic. I will upload the photo tomorrow.

Last night we had a fantastic meal at The Heritage Grill, one of our sponsors and just down the street from LAFFLINES. If you are looking for high class food with pub like prices in a warm casual setting this is it! The chef is world renowned and hails from New Orleans. I think the jumbalya will be my choice tonight! The entire group was blown away by the quality and nothing on the menu will take more than 20 bucks from your wallet! Even touring comics can splurge like that. You can find The Hertiage Grill on Columbia St one block west of LAFFLINES. Check it out if you can.
Lots to do today and some media interviews and such so I am signing off for now.
Later
Daryl Makk