We have been “on the road” for the past 3 days basically travelling from one place to the next without stopping to site-see because there hasn’t been much to stop for.
We did see a bear and then about 45 minutes later, a bear-cub crossing the road south of Hyder, AK but other than that the landscape changed from “rugged” with steep cliffs to forests with a fair amount of open land. There was a lot of farming and ranching as we headed south compared to none (at least that we saw in northern BC). This was also the first day since Fairbanks where we had temperatures over 70o.
We stopped (Wed) at a municipal campground in Burns BC, which was beside Burns Lake and a huge out-door gymnasium playground that the city had built... impressive! We did see another bear in the bush today. We did barbeque some more fresh salmon that I caught in Homer, AK… it is delicious.
The next morning (Wednesday) we headed for Williams Lake where we stayed at the stampede grounds. Nothing special but the temperature was great so we had a barbeque… hot dogs and polish sausage. No animals today.
Thursday we took-off for Squamish BC. The landscape changed again as we moved into the Rockies with tall trees (fir & pine) as well as plenty of rocks. Forestry is the main economic staple in this area. We took Route 99 (Sea & sky highway), which is a very scenic drive except it was hazy and the driver does not have any time to look around with all the twists, turns, ups and downs and rough road. It was the most tiring day of driving on our whole trip. We did see a deer early in the morning. We did drive through Whistler but from what we saw, it is all ski chalets, hotels, and restaurants. Not Wrangler Dave’s type of town…
Now we are in Squamish BC where we are parked in front of my nephew Aaron’s & Andrea’s apartment.
We stopped (Wed) at a municipal campground in Burns BC, which was beside Burns Lake and a huge out-door gymnasium playground that the city had built... impressive! We did see another bear in the bush today. We did barbeque some more fresh salmon that I caught in Homer, AK… it is delicious.
The next morning (Wednesday) we headed for Williams Lake where we stayed at the stampede grounds. Nothing special but the temperature was great so we had a barbeque… hot dogs and polish sausage. No animals today.
Thursday we took-off for Squamish BC. The landscape changed again as we moved into the Rockies with tall trees (fir & pine) as well as plenty of rocks. Forestry is the main economic staple in this area. We took Route 99 (Sea & sky highway), which is a very scenic drive except it was hazy and the driver does not have any time to look around with all the twists, turns, ups and downs and rough road. It was the most tiring day of driving on our whole trip. We did see a deer early in the morning. We did drive through Whistler but from what we saw, it is all ski chalets, hotels, and restaurants. Not Wrangler Dave’s type of town…
Now we are in Squamish BC where we are parked in front of my nephew Aaron’s & Andrea’s apartment.
We are planning to have a visit with them, go out to dinner and then tomorrow head for Vancouver.
That’s it for now… take care and keep the loops open.
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