Hello from B.C. We are traveling again…headed toward Prince Rupert to catch the ferry. We met some awesome people from Chilliwak B.C. She loves dogs…like me…and he is nuts for hunting…like Ray…We parked beside them and talked…and talked. Might stop to see them on our way home.
Now we are on the road and who knows where we will end up…Laundry…yeah, I’m back in the good ol’ mat washing clothes…fun stuff…Watched a little of the Olympics while my clothes dried…ain’t laundromats fun? The young man who was working was at least nice to talk to…Ray was off talking to some fishermen.
British Columbia is an amazing place…mountains and glaciers everywhere you look…We stayed in a beautiful provincial campground by Lakelse near Terrace, I think…anyway, they have a 45 minute hike through ancient spruce and cedar trees, moss and skunk cabbage…trickling streams…so very peaceful. We walked it three times…wonderful The lady at the gate…Teresa…was bored silly as it was cold and rainy and hardly anyone coming through. We visited for a while going in and going out…her mom is ill and she is the youngest of 5…nice woman…then the next night we stayed in another provincial campground and met her older brother who runs that one!
My parents said to watch for a camper with SD plates, some friends of theirs were heading to Prince Rupert also…Now British Columbia is a big place and we figured we would never see them…guess who parked beside us at the campground….yup, SD Plates and Joe and Barb! Freaky huh? We camped by them three different nights and ran into them at a cannery museum…small, small world. Makes the hair on my neck stand up…well, the hair that is dug out from my itching mosquito and no-seeum bites. I seriously found a spot that wasn’t covered in bites…then I got bit again…oh, well, at least I know I’m sweet, eh?
The dogs are having a blast. They’ve made a lot of friends along the way both human and the kind you greet by sniffing the nether regions…They played with a Canadian Mountie’s dog the other day… a beautiful german shepherd named Guiness. Everywhere we go, we get stopped by people ooohing over the dogs. They think everyone we meet is there to see them…and it is just about true.
Well, we are getting to Prince Rupert so watch out ocean…here we come…
We parked in a pull off and during the night a storm came and Ray moved the camper so we wouldn’t get stuck…I can’t remember if I wrote about this, but when the dogs and I went out to walk the next morning, there was a bear print in the mud right behind where we camped…Cool.
September 1, 2008 at 5:57 am
Glad to hear you are getting along OK. Seems like the dogs
are having as much fun as you are.