SPARWOOD Saturday, August 1, 2009

After this minor detour we rolled into Fernie. Seems it is their 100th anniversary so they are re-doing the main street in town. They are making it a pedestrian plaza, most of the stores are closed until the construction is completed, but we still got a feel for the town. Dan bought me a Lonely Planet guide to B.C. since I didn’t have one and was feeling lost with out a relevant guide book to read.

We visited the grocery store here and learned that B.C. makes buying liquor almost as hard as Utah does- actually it may be harder up here because you can’t even buy 3.2 in the grocery stores. So we had to improvise and make up yet another gin concoction that no one would ever put on a bar menu. Alas it gets the job done.