Adventure in Transit - Kelowna

So when Rob and I arrived in Kelowna we soon came to the realization that we are living smack in the middle of suburbia. Not only is it suburbia... but it's a terraced community that is built into the mountain. Our apartment is very big and very nice. Our view is great but everyone (and their children) have cars. So getting around Kelowna has proven a bit tricky.

Here are a few tails of the trials and tribulations of our adventures.

Well, on one of the first days that we were here, we decided to walk to downtown Kelowna. We figured that the walk would take about an hour in total. So we started out on our adventure to explore! (we live on the westside of the lake). After walking for half an hour, we FINALLY reached the main road that would take us into town only to realize that this town is not particularly pedestrian friendly. There were no sidewalks or even large curbs. (and the speed limit is 80 KM/H). We ended up walking in tall grass on the side of the road to avoid impending death from oncoming traffic. After walking for another half an hour we realized that we were not going to reach our destination in the time we had thought. In fact, we had not even reached the bridge yet.

As we crossed the bridge people kept gawking at us in their comfortable cars. Their looks were those of people that are peering on something rare and special. The endangered pedestrian. Though, I think some of them might have just been thinking "suckers".

That being said it was a nice day and when we finally crossed the bridge we found a nice beach to rest and have a little snack. It was great but we STILL hadn't reached the downtown area. We took the back roads through a nice little community to avoid the obvious dangers of staying on the main road. Finally we reached downtown. It's beautiful, cute, and at the time we arrived basically a ghost town (Thanksgiving Monday). We found a coffee shop had a nice drink and decided to catch a cab back. This was mainly because we realized that the entire walk to town was on a down slope and that going home would be all up hill... about 2 hours.

The cab fair was not cheap, but at least we learned that quickly!

That was our first adventure of many in getting around Kelowna.

I will update the rest later. I think this is enough for you to read at the moment. Otherwise I could write an entire novel!

Cheers,
Erin