Linus wants the Sony FW900 CRT monitor, but it's super expensive
And they have to ship the 200 pound beast which costs even more money and of course adds risk of breaking
so I'm gonna drive from Vancouver to Alkford to go get one and
I guess I'm taking you with me
Let's go. All right before we go. We got to say
Goodbye to Luke and Linus
Bye, I hope one day people make furry out of me and of course
Goodbye to the second furry Luke and Linus. Wish me luck on the travels. I'm doing it for you. All right. I'm doing it for you
and you All right, it's super early. Let's go. Our first stop is
Princeton I'm not showing you where I live. I'm not falling for it
Welcome to beautiful Princeton
It's cold We're like two hours in so
10 plus hours to go All right, this is Headley, BC
Which interesting fact
When I'm editing this cut in and mention an interesting fact about Headley that's not about the band Headley
Because I don't know any other facts than than that. So
Interesting fact here. Your interesting fact is that as soon as I finished recording that I got in my car and
Found out that I forgot my wallet back home. So the rest of the drive didn't have a wallet
And that was that was a bummer so
Yeah, wow, that is interesting. All right, carrying on. This is Carameas
Fruit stand country. It is a bunch of fruit stands and vineyards
All in this little valley And it's beautiful out here
Now this beautiful city
Was discovered in 1904 by the Germans
And they called it Suius which means a whales vagina
No, there's no way that's correct
I'm sorry, I was trying to impress you. Oh, I don't know what it means
So the reason that Grand Forks is called Grand Forks is because back in the day
There used to be a shortage of silver and other metals which made things like utensils a rare
Like thing to have and became really expensive So that's why I got the the kind of given name of Grand Forks and eventually became the official name
Because of really expensive utensils and that's real go look it up I will wait for you right here. Go look it up on Wikipedia search Grand Forks, BC
You'll see that it's named that because of expensive utensils. We are now stopped in Salmo, BC
which is my favorite town on this drive because of
The cheapest gas in BC for some reason in this
Super small town in the middle of nowhere
And that's the only fact I have because I never do anything here other than stop at this specific gas station and then leave
Welcome to Creston. Yeah, they made a lot of these towns might look
Very similar and they are kind of similar a lot of them are produce towns and farms and vineyards, but
Creston's got this beautiful mountain and we're gonna just drive right around it through there
And on the other side of it for our next stop yak
Which is a pretty small town on the highway, there's a
Sweet ice cream shop called two scoop steves where they have goats, but the real star of yak is of course
Welcome to Cranbrook lovingly known as the gateway to the Rocky Mountains
The interesting fact is I used to live here for many years
But the more interesting fact is that this was a prize on Jeopardy was a vacation to Cranbrook
In no offense to Cranbrook, but I don't know but they do have those gorgeous mountains
beautiful Ferney BC a ski town nestled just before the Alberta BC border
It's a little snowy, so I don't really have too much of a view
But it is a beautiful ski town full of hippies and a great distillery if you're of legal drinking age
I recommend Ferney fog liqueur or Ferney brewing. What the Huck beer?
10 out of 10 This is Sparwood now Sparwood actually has something interesting and I promise I'm not lying
It is home to the world's largest truck
Odd claim to fame I know
But it's big. I would say it's at least like I don't know
It's probably like 40 line assist all it's huge
So there's your interesting fact about Sparwood
All right, we finally made it to Alkford We're gonna go find where
This monitor is it's not here. Don't worry. I'm not doxing. I'm gonna go find them
I just parked because I like to the view
Alright that took a long time. It was a long drive, but we got the the monitor and now we're heading back to Vancouver
I couldn't I couldn't stay away. All right, I stopped in Fringes to admire the view and that's where it begins
Love for any brewing. All right, let's try one of these out
What happened
All right, here we are in Moyet
You can't really see it, but it's a lake town really small really just so small
Nothing there But obviously we can't really see it. So I'm gonna put some photos here and here and the third one right here
Bye Moyet That down there is Castlegar
lovingly known as Cancelgar by the residents in the Kootenays as for some reason this little town has an airport
But it is always so foggy that all flights pretty much get cancelled all of the time
It's actually not foggy right now, which is which is weird, but just imagine it grayer
Yeah, like that, but do like a little bit more opaque Yeah, yeah, just like that
Christina Lake another small little vacation town
Beautiful though in the summer lots of boats out here in the winter
Just plain pretty The interesting fact Christina Lake is that there's a big rock slide right there on the way
Here I had to wait in line forever and I will probably be doing that again now
All right, we're here in Greenwood, which is like an old an old themed town. I don't I don't really know why towns are themed
Or if this is just still old like even all these appliances. There's a saloon
But your fact for Greenwood is that for some reason I'm convinced that I read an article or heard somewhere
That Greenwood has the best tap water or like the cleanest tap water
I refuse to do research and find out if that's true. So take it as fact
We're about to drive through midway You know usually stop and give you a fact. So I thought I'd give you your facts about midway
It's got a gas station, you know, not bad and
We've already driven through it. So that was midway. I didn't want to stop for literally a gas station
See the next stop is Rock Creek All right, we're in Rock Creek
We got the map here where we're headed
So we got we're on creek there's midway and how small it is a see you's caramious Princeton
Hope is up next Welcome to hope
Hope I always forget about hope. I almost drove right through hope until I wasn't need to stop
My fun fact about hope is that this is just outside of where I got stuck in the hope floods
Where there are rock sides and floods that got me trapped and it took me 27 hours to get home on this drive
That I'm doing right now that usually only takes about nine hours
And yeah, it was it was horrible. It was really just dreadful. So now whenever I think I hope I get PTSD about being stuck
with no food no water no blanket in
November and it was freezing and scary, but I survived and still posted the WAN Show
Podcast and elm tree clips because you know, I'm a star
All right, we made it back safely all the way from Elkford, BC to here in Vancouver and this baby's looking great
So make sure to check out the full video either now. I don't know when I'm finished editing this or next week some other time
Either way check it out
Me
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