Travel to Ft. Nelson--June 21

Behind due to no internet access--I hate it when that happens. I just spent good blogging time to eliminate some 500 emails and send a bunch to spam so my computer doesn't crash. I did not send friends' emails to spam though. It is so much harder to recreate what we did several days ago even though I make notes, but here goes.



This is not just the longest day of the year--summer solstice--but our longest mileage so far--282.9 miles. We left by 6:30 so that means we were up by 5:15--ugh! It was actually later because we had to gas up and that always takes awhile with these gas hogs and then stop for coffee down the road. We saw 2 deer in the morning and then an mile 127 we hit our first real good frost heaves which are just bumps (up raised ) in the road of various sizes. We will continue to have them all along now.



We stopped at Pink Mtn. Lodge (these lodges are more like small quaint cafes) for a nap and ice cream for "the boys".The pink mountain gets its name from the local fall foliage when red-barked willows give the mountain a pink colour in the morning sun and another source attributes it to the concentrations of feldspar. As we travelled on we saw a couple of beaver dams and lodges. Dee and Marvin saw a moose and baby but we never saw it. Eventually we stopped for lunch in the coach and a longer nap. This getting up early gets you. We were passed by a bunch of our fellow caravaners.



Later on we passed a helicopter just sitting off the side of the road. No one around. We also saw another black bear by the road. When we arrived at Ft. Nelson we gassed up again because it just gets higher in price the farther north we go. We stayed in the Triple "G" Hideaway RV Park or the Westwind Campground which ever it is called which also had a restaurant/bar. After getting set up the 4 of us and others went next door to the Nelson Heritage Museum. This 78 yr. old gentleman must have been accumulating all his life. He had all sorts of stuff in this place. We also saw another movie about the building of the Al-Can Hwy. The whole place was interesting. Marvin saw him ride this bike that he had put together in which both wheels went different directions at the same time. His wife is a year younger and she is still a practicing massage therapist. We ate dinner at the RV restaurant not the best,had our briefing for the next day and went back to the coach. Bob washed the bugs off the windshield and I woodburned our sign for the Sign Forest at Watson Lake. No wifi so went to bed to get up at 5:30 again and start over.