Thursday, August 26, 2010

From Whitehorse to Dawson Creek

We dry camped our way down the Alaska Highway for four nights of five nights to reach Dawson Creek, BC. 

Spent one night at the Continental Divide.  Here you dump your RV tanks in the parking lot and the fluid flows in opposite directions.  Ha ha ha!  Tasteless RV joke!!  Ain't we a riot?

Spent one night at Liard Hot Springs Provincial Park, at one of the largest natural hot springs in the province.  Nice, nice.

We thoroughly enjoyed the crafts and history exhibits at the Teslin Tlingit Heritage Centre.  We particularly like their style of masks and clothing among all the Native tribes.


We noticed the fireweed going to seed on August 23.  Traditionally this signals the end of summer, with "termination dust" (the first snow) following soon thereafter.


Now we're spending two nights back at Dawson Creek Mile Zero campground.  Tomorrow we take the trailer to the local suspension shop for some (hopefully) minor maintenance to the trailer springs.

The wildfire situation along our route has improved markedly.  Thus south we go!

Current itinerary
 - Four days to Anacortes, WA, where we will join friends for a ferry ride to Friday Harbor.  One of our favorite pass times in past times.
 - Fifteen miles to the Camping World at Burlington, WA.  Finally replacing the awning that the city bus snatched from our home last May.
 - One day to Olympia, WA, our former home, to see friends and the local Costco, in that order.
 - One day to Eugene, OR, for a second solar panel on the roof.

Bruce

1 comment:

palamine said...

Four days from Dawson Creek to Anacortes? You got wings?