But first, as we were leaving Prince George, we passed this Green Goddess RV. You sure couldn't miss it coming down the road!! It was entirely encased in pea green.
This is farm country, between Prince George and the Fraser River Canyon down the Trans Canada Highway. Every acre is baled into these huge rolls for cattle and horse feed. In some places, even the roadside grass was baled!!
In Quesnel, we got fuel before heading out of town. A & W is pretty popular here, as is Colonel Sanders KFC and the Dollar Store. It says Chubby Chicken on the building ... don't ask, I have no idea what that is!
Every time we see a log cabin, I wish it was mine. Here, they are making huge log homes, putting them together and numbering each piece for installation on your acreage.
The ever present road construction is going on in Canada, as in Alaska. This section was pretty narrow, with a three foot drop off if you wandered a little too far to the right!!
On into the Fraser River Canyon I noticed two railroads following the river, one on the right side and one on the left side. Dan said there was a big fight over who was going to get the railroad right-of-way. When no agreement could be reached, they BOTH built railroads, on both sides of the river.
We had been driving for some time looking for a place to spend the night ... prerequisite was electricity. My thermometer said 98. All of the parks we passed were out of business, until Dan found one he SAID was advertised in some book. On the word of the lady at the gas station (oh sure, you can turn around down there!!) we headed down this steep narrow road towards who knows what. Dan says over the radio ... Nancy, just remember it's an ADVENTURE!! I've already got my gloves on to unhook the jeep. We passed all the "nice" buildings, and headed deeper in the woods towards the river.
THEN came the railroad trestle we had to drive under ... I heard Dan say he thought he could make it, but to watch his AC unit ... he barely slithered through with inches to spare. I slid over to the far right, trying to hit the low spot in the road, and had plenty of room ... well 18 inches anyway!
At last we arrived at Anderson Creek Campground. Hmmmmm ... doesn't look big enough to turn around to me!!
Lo and behold, they actually have TWO drive through spaces with water and 30 amp electric. Bernard, the nicest guy, helped us get lined up, then showed off his beautiful dog, four cats and his garden!! For $25 it was perfect and I highly recommend staying here. Hopefully you like trains, because as I said, there are TWO running down each side of the river ... one about 500 feet to the left of my rig!!
We took a short walk down to the creek that runs into Fraser River at this point and looked up at the railroad trestle we had just driven under on the short end. This is a pretty amazing structure!!
Here's the creek as it flows into the river. Must be quite a bit of water at times, because you can see the water line ABOVE the dead trees at the top left.
While checking out the river, the Canadian Pacific train ran along the far wall.
This train was far enough away you could only hear it. The one on THIS side of the river made my rig vibrate every time one passed by ... there were 5 trains this morning between 5:30 and 9:30.
This car is right over the part we drove under!!!
On the way out, I got this shot of Dan under the trestle. If a train had been overhead, he probably wouldn't have made it.
On to the City of Hope ... all of the towns in Canada have beautiful City signs ... some carved from wood, some rocks, some flowers. All are beautiful!! They have inventive names for their towns also ... we saw 150 Mile House, 100 Mile House, 70 Mile House .... 50 Mile Hotel, 84 Mile Grocery ....
Finally ... the US Border at Sumas Washington where the wait was about 20 minutes.
We fueled up at Everson WA and went south on I-5 to Bow, where we are staying one night at Mt Vernon Thousand Trails Park. Although the sites are important, the personnel are more important to me in recommending a place to stay. The office was staffed with two people, who pretty much ignored us in order to get a pass for a family member, get a pass for another Thousand Trails member who just came for the ice cream and to talk on the radio about how busy they were. Finally cleared to find a site, we found two great spots fairly close together.
Ok, I took out all the bad stuff I said about this Thousand Trails Park. Suffice to say I will definitely be reporting it to higher ups.
Tomorrow it's off to take the RV on a Ferry!!! Now THAT's an adventure!!!
Oh ... and the mustard wasn't mustard ... it was rapeseed, or Canola ... like the oil!!
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