Coast Inn of the North Prince George

... s for a couple of days to prep for her week long care of dogs mid-oct.<br><br>Great weather (what I could remember of it as I was sleeping, due to no sleep for last week trying to finish up year end). Very foggy on the way to my sis's. She lives up north of PG in a place called Miworth.<br>

... Blogging was an invaluable aid in bringing back the details of this trip and in many cases giving a better perspective to that which we had seen. I have often said during my blogging that I love traveling but I hate preparation. Ideally a trip should be preceded by a copious amount of reading and research to optimize the travel experience. I wish I could do it, but I can't. I just don't have the patience or the perseverance. In a certain ...

... quite comical to see one bear slowly saunter past the boardwalk, look at the spectators and then proceed to drop some scat. I couldn't help but laugh when the lady next to me excitedly cried "He's been eating berries! He's been eating berries!" Does this scat fascination never end?...the prior week back in Canada there was not a mention of it, but within hours of crossing back into Alaska it's topic #1; · Salmon Glacier...this one was ...

... visible. Rick managed to spot three deer during his "time out from driving" They appeared content grazing in the same area as three horses , but close to the road with traffic driving past. We are now in a place called Prince George, here the highway splits, one route takes us on the 16 and then the 37 to Watson Lake in the Yukon, the other takes the 97 north through Dawson BC and then onto Watson Lake. A decision will be made ...

... areas which had to be evacuated due to the flooding further west along the Nechako. It was quite a story at the time and I was surprised to hear that upon our return on January 11, 2008 from Hawaii, it was still the top story. Since our return, the situation has gotten even worse with the ice jam now reaching back for 15 kilometers posing an even greater threat. In Blog 8: Nechanko River - Cross Country Skiing - January 17, 2007, I posted some interesting ...

... I knocked on the doors of our immediate neighbours only to be met with no response to my desperate knock. Running out of time, I was struggling to get the baggage and garbage in a piece-meal fashion to the elevator and garage level without forgetting anything along the way. Meanwhile I managed to give Barbara a call and share the good news with her. We decided to leave a second set of car keys on her office desk in the hopes that one of her co-workers would ...

... improvement but we should have acted on the very first price we got from Aloha Airlines. In retrospect, we should also have compared prices with the Go Airlines site. Should you look to this site now, you may find much lower prices but don't forget we went in high season. In general, we were able to keep accommodations in the neighbourhood of $100 per night. The exception was Maui, billed as the world's most beautiful island. The cheapest ...

... To Alaska From Prince George there are two options: Option 1: Via Dawson Creek This is the exact same route that I took to reach the Liard Highway and which is documented in EXCURSIONS: Blogs 9 - Prince George to Dawson Creek Dawson Creek is "Mile 0" of the A L A S K A H I G H W A Y, while Fairbanks, Alaska is at milepost 1520. Blog 10 - Dawson Creek to Fort Nelson ...

... of the city a distance of about 5 km. The really short version: The accident occurred when a freight train failed to stop in time to allow an oncoming train to switch completely onto another track. A longer version of events: The accident took place at slow speed as a freight train was switching from one track to another in order to clear the track for an oncoming train. The oncoming train which should have stopped, failed to allow sufficient ...