Interior where the weather is signed

I’m just back from doing some readings from Malarky in the BC Interior, specifically in Salmon Arm and Vernon.

I have never ventured to the Interior before and it was certainly, weather-wise, an extraordinary adventure. Not since Iceland, have I travelled through, what felt to be, all the seasons in an hour or so. I was most struck by the volume of weather-related signage all along the road from here to Vernon. I’ve never seen any road decorated with weather signage before. Examples included: This road is subject to DENSE FOG. Warning mountain road weather can change rapidly. Specific dates Oct-April (I don’t recall the numbers) where one must travel with chains in your car or truck. It was a lovely sense to imagine the roads and all the transport on them under the direction/ directed by and instructed on how to behave in advance by the weather!

To be continued ….