Howdy! We got the pictures back from Bowen and there are lots of good ones, but Carole was having troubles uploading them to her Photo Gallery (I had screwed up when moving everything to the new server) so I had to upgrade it and convert all the old albums to the new format... so... now that it's up and running, Carole's going to upload the pictures, and I'll write about what we did on Bowen. (Actually, I uploaded one picture just to test if it was working - you can checkout a pic of the two of us in front of our floating hotel room, first night on Bowen)
Hey, did I ever mention that I moved all my websites to a new server? Hmmm... very long story - maybe next rainy day I'll tell ya all about it.
Anyway, this past weekend (B.C. Day long weekend) We joined the Scarecrow Balcony drummer Ron and his family and friends (Including members of Omegacrom, Sack Blabbath, Mach Turtle, and more) for a killer long weekend at Green Lake. Weather was awesome, camping was great, food was awesome, and Matt's campfire storries kept us all howling 'till the wee hours of the morning. Again, when the pictures are developed and uploaded, I'll post some links to 'em here.
Only crappy thing was that I blew a tire about 20 minutes away from our destination and since I've got those damned low profile 'ride-flat' safety tires, I didn't even know it until we arived. I suppose that's what they're made to do, keep us safe - but if I had KNOWN that I had run over a nail, I would have gone right to the tire store in 70 Mile and had the thing patched! By not knowing, I drove on it for 20 minutes and split the sides, thus destroying the tire... which, of course, NOBODY carries a replacement low profile 17 inch 'ride-flat' safety tire in the Cariboo, so our 600 km trip home was done on the mini donut emergenct spare tire that you can only use to a maximum of 80kmph...
Even back in Vancouver these tires are hard to find - but my BMW dealer was nice enough to order me in one from back east at the amazing $100 below cost price of $289!!! Wow - what a deal... the patch would have been $15 max!!!
Ah well. I keep telling myself that "people buy BMWs because they're SAFE, not because they're economical!" and I suppose the safety tire did it's job. The price of safety these days...
Aside from the tire, it was an awesome excusrion. The weather was so perfect, about 30 degrees every day - and now that we're back in Vancouver, it's pouing rain for the first time in over a month. For once, great timing! We REALLY need this rain...
Posted by Calvin at August 4, 2004 08:36 AM