"I think we should drive Morris." (Part I)

This weekend was full of Morris-driving, and we made sure to take lots of pictures! It was far too long since are last misadventures and hopefully we made up for it this weekend.

On Saturday we hit the road north to Barriere. We chose the destination because of how close it was and how flat the highway was, wanting to see what our fuel economy was now like. On our way we learned that Morris isn't too fond of speeds over 80km/h, and often times only a brisk seventy is what he has to offer. It will certainly take longer than expected to reach Mexico, but when driving Morris it becomes very clear- all that matters is we reach the destination. Morris is old, he's got arthritis. If we push him hard he will never make it, we need to just sit back and be happy to let him reach the end on his own terms.

Arriving in Barriere, we promptly left. However, we found we accomplished a respectable 46mpg! I'd like to see us reach 50, keeping in mind our theoretical best is 62mpg. If you were wondering, that 46mpg puts our current fuel bill for Mexico at about $350 for getting there and back. After leaving, Mitch decided it would be much nicer to drive in the shade on the other side of the river, but how would we get there? Lucky for us there was a ferry, and we caught the final sailing! The operators loved the car.

Returning on Westsyde Rd had other advantages as well, like visiting the Whispering Pines raceway!

We stopped in at Whispering Pines briefly, but it looked like they were finishing up for the day when we arrived. Doubly-unfortunate for us, while leaving a large hornet decided to make a home in our air vents, and now we are petrified at the thought of a nest of bee's inside the car. We have the controls set to inside air, hopefully preventing the bugger from entering the car, but are constantly worried if we turn on the fan it will shoot bee's at us. We returned home, and Saturday ended off climbing mountains in the dark, swearing and telling each other we'd return with a good camera the next day.

Morris silently watches over North Kamloops under cover of nightfall.

-steve