fallow fi elds of corn, and acres of brown earth dotted with pumpkins. Our sedate drive on level ground was short-lived. While
plummeting down the side of the Kootenay mountains my sister had a major panic attack as lights fl ashed, bleeps bleeped, the smell of burning rubber pervaded the cabin, and David assured us everything was alright and that he was driving to the bottom. I wondered when the bottom was ever going to arrive, but eventually we reached a rest stop where June hyperventilated, the brakes cooled down, and Mr. B and I wandered into the woods for me to nonchalantly read a notice about Pine Beetle and pretend I was perfectly fi ne, and for him to sniff about for appetizing pooh. Meditative and calmed aſt er some Yogic deep breathing
exercises we headed onwards to Trail, and the world’ largest Zinc smelter, where concentrate from Alaska, the States and the Northwest Territories is shipped to the Cominco zinc plant, a vast structure of pipes and funnels that looms over the river. A notice in Gulch, founded by Italians with some of the best restaurants in town, wished us Arrividerci as we hauled up yet more gradients to the Alpine city of Kimberley, famous for
Time for a rest stop and admiring the view.
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