Elaine's maiden name is Curry of Scottish heritage. Her family is descendant from James Curry who entered Canada in 1782 as a United Empire Loyalist and settled at Curry Hill Park in Lancaster Ontario. Elaine's Grandfather Curry reentered the U.S. and settled in Washington in the early 20th century.

We will visit Lancaster on the Expotition and bring back photographs of the memorial erected in 1933 to James Curry, his immediate family and other Loyalists in the old burial grounds.

Our travels ended in Golden at 9:10 PDT (10:10 MDT) after 720 kilometres/450 miles. We averaged 80 kph/50 mph including all stops. We averaged just over 40 mpg pulling over the Coquihalla Hwy. Incidentally, we used 3rd gear only twice on the Coquihalla - on the snow shed hill and for the last few hundred metres to the summit north of Merritt. The little 998 cc engine pulled very well (especially since I weighed the loaded and refueled Mini at 940 kgs./2,068 lbs.).

For those that don't know the Coquihalla, it is a high speed divided highway crossing two heights of land from Hope to Kamloops, B.C. It has long uphill climbs in several sections, where horsepower counts. We held 110 kmh (the limit) most of the way in 4th gear.

We hit rain climbing over the Roger's Pass from Revelstoke to Golden and it has rained since.

Some minor embarrassments...I forgot the spark plug socket, my race helmet and Elaine forgot the first aid kit. However, misjudging the load has meant using the rear wheel flares as bump stops. Must lengthen the trumpets when it stops raining.

We each drove, Elaine took the middle shift from Merritt to Salmon Arm. I don't think she has ever thought about driving that many kilometres (on the Coquihalla) with the gas pedal pinned to the floor.

Easy watching the gauges though, as the temperature never closed on N, let alone exceeded it. The 13 row oil cooler obviously helped. However we can't judge that fully until we get some hotter weather. None yet in sight!

Have a big day tomorrow running through Calgary, Medicine Hat, Swift Current and on to Moose Jaw. We will hook up with Colin Cook there. He lives at Cold Lake Alberta and has just finished a 1275 cc powered Countryman and wants to run with us to Quebec.

We are not able to send pictures today - the library can not do and local business wants $60 per hour. The money is for wheel chairs!