Journey's End
Home Sunrise in Hope,BC. Home that same evening We finished our journey as we begun, on the shoulders of Summer. Crisp, sometimes frosty mornings, hot days, and cool evenings. In between we were baked in 34c in the Kootenays and 38c in New Brunswick, drenched in torrential downpours in Quebec with accompanying thunder and lightning (one strike far too close for comfort) and endured the odd hazy wildfires day in Ontario. On our penultimate day, we drove the Coquihalla Highway, where a few days earlier a wildfire had closed the road. Charred trees lined each side of the carriageway, and isolated plumes of smoke rose from parts of a still green forest untouched by the initial inferno. On the far side of the mountain smoke billowed from the fire 'being held'. No sign of the frightening flames rushing up the sides of conifers or water bombers or indeed other activity trying to suppress the fire. On the highway, incongruously, maintenance crews were renewing the w...
