Taking It Easy And Hitching In Oliver

So I got some work, more or less!! I went up to Summerland last Thursday (awesome name for a town) for a days roofing with Dan, a friend of Katie's (a sweet girl I met on the bus between Whistler and Vancouver). It was all good and looks as though Dan can give me work through September starting in a week. Nice.

However, this post is more about getting between Oliver and Summerland. They are about maybe 60km apart.

To get up to Summerland for the days work on Thursday I caught a ride with Robin (mentioned Robin last post). I went hiking with his group on the way up to Summerland, of which the average age is about 60! Was good fun though.

After work on Thursday and learning the job won't start for a week or so I decided to go back to Oliver to relax for the week. So threw the thumb out for... A dude, about 65yrs old, in his beat up pickup truck and dressed like a hippy pulls over. Great I think, throw my pack in the tray, climb into the cab where he has ZZ Top blearing from the cassette player. I yell "I'm heading to Oliver" and he yells back "Oliver Express" and thats all we say, for 10 mins anyway. The dude then turns the music down and asks if I have anything to smoke!! haha classic. As it turned out I did so we had a cheeky smoke. The rest of the trip I spent listening to this old fella tell me crazy stories of him taking rich American woman into the woods, getting them hammered on magic mushrooms and having a "good time with them" Sounded kinda creepish but was funny to listen too! Then this poor fella has to put up with these woman forever writing to him telling him they love him! Hilarious!! He then invited me to his place to check out his 1960's snowmobiles of which I had heard all about in detail....crack up times, crack up dude!!

Then went back up to Summerland yesterday with Katie and her brother Jamie (they were in Oliver on holiday) to spend the night with Dan and his wife Toni and their son, plus two young nephews they were looking after. Was a good day and night.

Katie and her bro headed back to Vancouver today so I hitched back to Oliver again. I got picked up by a good Indian fella who was driving a sweet 1970s something hotrod pickup. Nice. Anyways, not too much longer he picks up another hitchhiker. Nothing funny about this except the guy was a full blown cowboy! So here I am, sitting between the cowboy and Indian in a red hotrod pickup....! Thought it was fairly comical!

Anyways, more r+r for me for the next few days. Hoping the work will kick off during next week at some stage. We will see.