You know, sometimes you need a carrot to get the rabbit going. For tonight I booked a “prospector’s shack” at the Historic Hat Creek Ranch, a historic site from the gold rush in the 19th century. Anyway, in order to get here, I kind of had to go a thirty kilometres’ detour. But the place looked cool and they had a bison burger on the menu. So that was my carrot for the day.

I was a bit slow this morning. So I left at 9:15. Then the road was first a gravel road and then one with very rough pavement. So the first twenty kilometres or so went really slowly. It rained a bit in the morning, but then it turned out to be the sunniest day so far.

After fifty kilometres, I took a lunch break at 70 miles house (the place is named after the gold rush trail which started in Lillooet which was 0 miles). There I met two other fellow cyclists from Germany who were basically on the exact same trip that I was. Except they used a bit more time.

I reached the town of Clinton today after eighty kilometres and thought that the remaining thirty to the Hat Creek Ranch might become tough because I was tired already. But luckily, they were all downhill. So I arrived here at 5:30, could take a shower and change, and then I had this bison burger which was really good. Also, this place is cool. They have, apart from some historic information, a lot of animals. Some happy pigs, some horses including a foal that liked my camera, and a lot of cute marmots.

Tomorrow I will go to Lillooet and from there another twenty to thirty kilometres up the mountains again. The last part is supposed to be very steep and a long climb. So I’m planning to leave early, so that I reach Lillooet by one or two o’clock, have time for a lunch break, and then have the rest of the afternoon for the tougher part. Vancouver is definitely coming closer.