Super 8 Fort St John Bc Fort St. John

Just a few miles north of Fort St. John we arrived at Charlie Lake, where we finally met Victor's second cousin Rick and his lovely family - Linda, warm and intelligent, and their beautiful daughters Gillian and Meagan. This, then, is the purpose of our long journey north into the oil and gas country of Canada, through some of the most stunning views of the Rockies we could have imagined ...

... in a township campground that ignored the across BC fire ban -- Alberta steak cooked on a BC grill was scrumptious. Moved on the following morning after a sleep-in caused by rain -- everything was wet or damp by the time we were packed.

Moseyed on towards Fort St John where we used the internet and headed promptly to our last campground in BC that had a neat ...

Today we left Whitecourt, AB and drove into Bristish Colombia. We didn't stop except to eat lunch and fill up with diesel. We have been paying around .80/ltr to .89/ltr. Today we paid .93/ltr. We entered on the Alaska Hwy at Dawson Creek. We drove through rolling hills today and again with many cannola and grain fields. The road got rather bouncy today, like riding a ...

Another day on the road. We made it into Fort St. John, BC about 1330 local. Put the canopy out and now just resting and relaxing.

There hasn't been much traffic. See the pictures of near empty four lane highway.

I have added some scenic ...

Right now I'm in beautiful downtown Dawson Creek, in view of "Mile 0" of the Alaska Highway.

I'll try to catch up a little with some pictures of Jasper National Park (yesterday and the day before). This part of British Columbia is mostly farm country...quite different from the georgeous mountains of just a few hours ago! About 60 miles back, I passed through the main "metro" area for this part of the world: Grande Prairie ...

The departure from Dawson Creek comes with a renewed commitment to take our time and not rush the adventure. About 20 miles out of Dawson Creek, we pull off the main road and take a historic highway loop to the Kiskatinaw River Bridge, a relic from the original Alaska Highway, and an oddity because of its unusual curve ...

... display: Calgary Approach: "5JH, right base rwy 10, can you land and hold short 16? you'll have 3000 feet, there will be a 737 landing 16" Fitz: "right base 10, can probably land and hold short" Calgary Approach: "I don't like the probably. Can you land 07, you'll have a 10 kt crosswind?" Fitz: "Rwy 07 it is." Lesson: it's better to manage the risk oneself than hope that ATC knows he's dealing with an idiot ...

On the way to Fort St. John we stopped by Prince George (for an Iced Cap at Timmy's) and then stayed overnight in Dawson Creek. We were surprised that this part of BC looked a lot like the prairies-grain elevators, rolling green hills, big sky, and lots of pick-up trucks. We had a day to spare as we had done our traveling on the weekend, so we stopped by Tumbler Ridge where we saw Kinuseo Falls from the top and then hiked ...

... polebridge_montana.ht ml) Over the next few days, we traveled all around Glacier NP. The park has several entrances that are several hours away from each other, and since there's only one road it took hours to go from one side to the other, not to mention the hour or so it took to get from our campground to the main road! We saw some mountain goats and lots of deer along the way, and one day at Many Glacier we saw a huge bull moose cooling off in the lake - he ...