Saturday, May 9, 2009

ROAD TRIP - Day 1 - Lake Louise to Lilloet

Wednesday the 6th of may we finally said our goodbyes to lake louise and attempted to make it to whistler to snowboard the next day. 


The Van was running sweet until about three quarters of the way when we had stopped to fill her up about halfway at a town called Kamloops and she wouldnt start
 her up. Turns out the Alternator wasnt working so the battery wasn't charging forcing us to have to jump start it every time we stopped. 
From this time on she was running incredibly bad. going up hills we were cruising at 10kmph.
We tried to make it to whistler but as we were on the turn off to Lilloet but as we turned she ran out of fuel. We had to call the CAA (like the equivalent of the RACV) to come give us fuel and jump start it. We finally got to the petrol station and filled up then she wouldn't start again leaving us to wait for the CAA guy to come start us up again. At this stage we were unsure of what to do but we tried to keep driving. 

We made it 5km out of town when she finally broke down. 


The "Death bed"

We were devastated thinking we had paid this money to fix her up and we were stuck in the middle of nowhere. 
We did not have a clue what we were gonna do because we thought the motor was fucked and we had to take here to the wreckers.
We just decided to sleep their the night and deal with it in the morning.

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