Smithers to Vanderhoof--Aug. 5

This is the last day of our caravan and it is only 169 miles to Vanderhoof so Dee, Marvin, Bob and I went to eat at the Capri Steakhouse in Smithers for breakfast. We finally left town at 8:30 which is a late start for us.

Our first stop was at the Visitor's Center in Houston to view the World's Largest Fly Fishing Rod which a local man had made and then inside was a huge stuffed grizzly. Several other people also stopped because it was right beside the road and ample turn around parking. We went on to a rest area but not because we were tired. I had read about it in the Milepost. There was a large rock cairn there and imbedded in the center was a large rock that came from Tintagel Castle in England where it was supposed that King Arthur of the Round Table was born. How and why it came to be there is still to be discovered but of course I took a picture.

More farm country and a interesting description of a rest area said it was "savory"--go figure. Some of their gas stations they call gas bars up here.

We stayed at a really nice campground called Dave's RV Park. These people were super and their showers were free and everything was so clean and well kept. Several of the girls rushed into their laundry room and did their clothes and the lady even did laundry in her own house for some of them. The next morning she brought out a large cake roll pan with warm coffee cake made with her own berries. How nice is that.

That evening we carpooled into town to a restaurant for our last meal-J & S Restaurant. It was either a really good roast beef dinner which turned out looking real good or the german meal and I too the german--big mistake. I do not like german and it wasn't that hot and it is all starch. After dessert--sundaes which were good we had our remembrances. Each couple had to get up and tell what was most memorable and the funniest thing they remember. That was great fun. The wagon master had gifts for each of us-a group picture, a stuffed black bear and something else. Everyone told Marvin and Dee goodby as they left the restaurant because nobody was getting up at 5am to say hey the next morning. We all went back to our coaches and eventually went to bed after getting ourselves and our coaches ready for the next day.