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A Travel Diary from my trip around Hawaii - U.S.A and Canada during 1996

North America, part 3

Si_lad
2004-03-26 22:48:06

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11th August 1996 Coal River, B.C

378 Miles.

Woke up to pissing rain and low cloud, so we packed up our soggy tent and moved on. We did quite a bit of mileage and the weather improved as we headed into Yukon, which we cut through and back into British Columbia. We arrived at Coal River late on – a small settlement on the highway in the middle of nowhere. We set up tent on a piece of grassy land next to the roadhouse, ate a sandwich and then hit the sack.

12th August 1996 Prophet River, BC

267 Miles.

Woke up to glorious weather and dried the tent out. We decided the next couple of days would be big driving days, so we set off reasonably early, heading back down the Alcan.

We covered a lot of mileage, hardly stopping, driving through more big roadworks and endless forest and mountains. Really wild!

Prophet River is in a National Park and we paid $7 to enter and camp. It’s really nice and very quiet.

We strolled around the forest in the afternoon and evening – which was beautiful in sunny, warm weather.

13th August 1996 Tudyah Lake, BC

320 Miles.

Another long day on the road, backtracking down the Alcan and then forking off on a more direct route down towards Prince George (the first "big" town since Whitehorse). Another perfect day.

Dibs said, "I feel like we’ll see some bears soon" and two minutes later we stopped and saw a Black Bear and two cubs right next to the roadside. Spooky! We stopped and watched (at a distance) and took some photographs.

The car was running OK but was losing oil, so we had to keep topping it up. A couple of the engine seals have gone, but it would be so expensive to fix, involving removing the transmission. Better off just buying cheap oil and ...