Copyright 2019, CABS for Reflections From the Fence
June 26, 2019
Rained on and off all night. Then woke to sun. Yippee.
Very slow start, as we are fighting with Progessive over stone chip coverage in Canada. We called before we left home, were assured we were covered. Now we are dealing with incompetence. And ate up well over 45 minutes. Frustrated. And that’s a nice word.
Finally on the road at 11:30.
Had a fox run cross the road, no photo.
Saw this Beaver along the way, little would I know that within 36 hours I would see a real live beaver in the wild - - WOW
Pulled into Dawson Creek, saw a glass repair shop. Stopped. While we ate lunch inside The Estate we watched them fill our stone chips. (Mr. Fixer has his face blurred out, as I did not have permission to post this photo.)
Stopped for required photo op. Mile 1 of Alaska Hwy.
On the road again, a Stone hit us, another, it wasn’t 20 min after we started rolling again. It was LOUD, but, it looks like it missed our wind shied.
Stopped to see the Kiskatinaw curved bridge. What is 14000 kg? That is the load limit for the bridge. We drove cross it. I was nervous, as I could not get online to find the equivalency charts for kilograms to pounds. Yea, I could not remember it. Turns out it is lots more than we weigh. Lol. 30,864 pounds. We are around 10,000.
Deer on side of road.
Drove to Pink Mountain, plus 15 miles. After Fort St. John the rain started.
In general the localities we have been in for the last several days are rich in propane and oil. Lots of interesting things to see. Pumping stations, tucked in behind walls of evergreens. You can barely see the equipment. Businesses that are distinctly energy related, pipes, portable housing, trucks and more trucks. This area is apparently rich in both propane, via fracking and oil, vis deep drilling. Propane work in the summer, oil in the winter.
Arrived in a torrential downpour. But there was some WiFi from campground. Slow. Painfully slow.
We stayed at Sikanni RIver & Rv Park, it was a shame it was raining so hard, as the site was nice and the river was quite pretty. Too wet to walk around tho.
Storm is significant. Hard rains, loud rolling thunder and a few bolts of lightning I would have loved to photograph. But alas, when you are driving you don’t have that privilege.
246 miles. British Columbia, where fuel prices seem to be 1.65 Canadian dollars per liter. New time zone, now Pacific.
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