I had travelled east through McBride for 25 years before I bought my home here in 2000.
I promised myself that I would never take the scenery for granted, that I would always look "up."
Nothing near McBride over 8,000 - 8,500'.
Oldjimbo lives north up the BC Coast. He's got even wilder scenery than I have here.
Flatland, rolling hills, the NYorks Moors in bloom, I enjoy it all. Somehow, the old stone architecture all over the UK fits the
landscape like a tree.
Driving North from Melbourne, Victoria to Albury, NSW, we went through Echuca, if my memory serves. It's on the Murray River flood plain.
I have never in my life seen a place so flat. Had to pull over, stop, get out for 10 minutes to appreciate what I was looking at.
Up close, mountains are nothing to look at = a rock wall coming up out of the ground!
The left side of the road is a 100' cliff that drops off into the river.