Drove to kamloops this morning for the intermontane challenge that starts Monday. Once I got to revelstoke the temperature was significantly higher. The remainder of the drive was hellishly hot. I sweatted my way to Kamloops for the 7 hour duration splitting duty between air  conditioning and 4 windows open at120km/h to cool the heat. Got setup at the Thompson River University (HQ for Intermontane). I was pretty much the only person around the entire campus except for the check-in desk and a maintenace guy. This guy told me I’m the first looking biker to arrive who does’t look underweight. I’m not sure if that was a compliment or not but i’m guessing some of the pros have already arrived.  I’m in a pretty nice room that has 4 bedrooms. So far I have met Glen from Hinton and Tanya from Ottawa who are sharing the suite.

After I finally got settled in I realized it was about 5:00pm Calgary time and I hadn’t really ate since breakfast. I popped open “urban Spoon” on the ol’IPhone and searched mexican  and vegetarian in Kamloops. Up came a sweet little spot called “Hot house Bistro”. So I GPS/Google mapped it and got some directions from my current location. A short 5  minute drive and I was at the stylish little restaurant. I ordered up a Dos Equis Amber, a glass of water and the “California Style Burrito…veggies and bean variety”. It was amazing. great food nice atmosphere and on a smartphones recommendation to boot.

On the way back to TRU I stopped at Superstore to grab some water and juice, when low an behold it started to spit a little rain. As I pulled into the TRU parking lot a full blown huricane seemed to of had blown in. Kamloops dissappeared into a dust storm.

A bit dusty here...