Embedded in Victoria…

We’ve made it, embedded into Victoria. Two days of driving, San Jose to Eugene, Eugene to Victoria. About 10 hours travel time both days.

Day 1 we lost an hour, maybe 90 minutes, to weather. Rain caught us heading out the 80, kept it up most of the way up the 5, except at Weed, where it decided to turn into snow. Fortunately, it was short-lived. More fortunately, Laurie was driving. I was, as usual, asleep, but woke up to the lack of rain sounds on the van…

Today we chased the occasional shower, but it was mostly a decent, grey day. Hit the 4PM out of Tswassen, made it to the hotel a bit after 6, and to the Keg for dinner during the third period of the Oilers game.

The picture shows the Empress hotel and the downtown skyline across the harbor, as seen from our hotel room. In the foreground is the wax museum, and the roof in the lower left corner is the ferry building for the Coho to Port Angeles. To the right, out of the picture, is the Parliament building.

As we were walking to dinner, the sun broke out of the clouds and bathed the inner harbour with a golden light, and we stood there and watched the light play off the water as an Air Beaver seaplane took off on one of its runs.

And I turned to Laurie and said “and people wonder why we come up here….”

The daffodils are fading up here, and the tulips are just starting, the cherry trees are in bloom, and the place looks awesome. So far, so good.

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