11 vii 06: Revelstoke to Kelowna

Image: go-karting
raw notes from my pocket journal:

Steve Halstead works as a production engineer -- examining, correcting production lines & equipment.

8:30 leaving Same Sun in Revelstoke MAGIC CARPET RIDE -- Steppenwolf?
9:00 three valley gap -- ghost town

11
JULY
2006
Tuesday
[in margin beside drawing of traffic barrier] roads close periodically in winter so avalanches can be triggered with howitzers and then cleared

STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU Clowns to the left of me Jokers to the right

GRIFFIN LAKE 9 am
www.indostry.co.uk 9:09
Faerie glamour akin to LOVE

Lime int he coconut
9:24 we arrive at the GO KARTING TRACK
9:46 the racers come off the track
10:02 leaving GO KARTS now on for ICE CREAM.
1014 entering SICAMOUS [arrow drawn to * below]

Okanagan towards Salmon Arm and Kamloops very like 324 along Juniata

"Houseboat Capital of Canada" [* arrow from above and another down to * below]

MOUNTAIN EQUIPMENT COOP A--- is a member

salon culture is Saloon culture
10:39
along
MARA LAKE [arrow to ** below]

[arrow from * above to this note] FOR RENT for use on the SHUSWAP LAKE

[**] ("a little lake" sez Des, "you can see the other side")

shop and fence along 97A completely covered in hubcap

South ENDERBY Flea Market 10:55
tour guide insists on our buying CHEESY TACKY GIFTS for other members of the tour -- I told him "It's more than my heart can bear."

[full page drawing labelled "NEAR SICAMOUS across from D Dutchman Dairy 25 mins HB]

the run-down-ness of this middle country is painful compared with the high delights of Vancouver, Whistler, Banff.
Some people like flea markets and garage sales -- I find them anathema. I generally know what I want and need and seek it out, but the search is so intense at a flea market -- and so much so saddens me I simply can't stand it.
At a museum one might find much the same material, but the structure of a good museum (which the 1719 house is not) is such that one is distanced from the emotion, or the emotion is showcased and focused, In a flea market the emotion is omnipresent and uncontrolled. My reaction is to become saddened or to flee -- thus to me a flea market is a flee market.

I think I'm realizing that rather than being,as some have said, devoid of emotion that I am rather extremely sensitive [continued on next page after drawing]

[drawing of a clever paper-towel dispenser with label:] hinged piece of wood to hold hown the paper towel roll Enderby flea market

emotionally and that to protect myself I take on intellection

11;55 leaving flea market at Enderby
NOON 97A South RAIN
12:19
Vernon -- oldest town in BC interior used to be called Priest's Valley
ASLAN plumbing, electric, & heating [with a lion logo]
BUT is it TAME Plumbing?

1:08 in those perfect moments for which we would wish everything about ourselves to be clean and pure, we rarely have the freshest breath or the best smelling bodies, but we find that the strength of the experience of the moment washes away those flaws.
1:16 pm off to Kalamalka viewpt

Alexanders beach pub ran its sprinklers to drive us off the lawn at Kalamalka lake
1:29 leaving viewpoint

[record of a rhyme taught me by A--- upon seeing magpies:]
1 for sorrow 4 for a boy
2 for joy 5 for silver
3 for marriage 6 for gold

7 for a secret that's never been told

bernard & bertram crossroads safeway KELOWNA!
3;45 sign in to private room
WITH AIR CONDITIONING!

Off to Winery tour.

lakeshore Rd in Kelowna has quite a few Indian restaurants, bookstores, & giftshops

Snipes owns the winery -- totally organic
SUMMERHILL PYRAMID WINERY

EHRENFELSER White with reddish taste
CABERNET FRANC 5:00 back, shower, dinner, nap

[notes from a conversation with Stuart Cole]
GO TO GEORGIA ST perp to Burrard
RBC walk away from Burrard
toward tanley Pk on Water (north side) TWO BUSES -farther from Burrard
GIVE A CALL 257 express bus BLUE LINE or 250 slower
Hop on BOWEN
5:35, 6;35, 7:35, 935
$11.45

talked c Willow & Suzy -- Subaru clutch died; Cooper will be put down tonight.

HORSE DRIVER from AUSTRALIA Vanessa Lowden [her e-mail in her hand]

learning to play pool to bed 9: pm