There be Bears here!

Well, here I am in the passenger seat blogging! We left the KOA bright and breezy this morning, our plan to get some miles done, and hopefully reach Dawson Creek. We picked up highway 40, 1 km from the camp site, which leads allthe way to Grand Prairie. But just before the road turns north, there is an unpaved road leading up to Goodwin Corner, so we decided to take that instead. It was a bit slower going than the tarmac road and at just over 100 miles long it took us a good 3 hours. But it was worth it, along the way we saw Coyotes, Deer… and a Black Bear!! You’ll have to forgive me for the picture, but I wasn’t gonna get out the car and go pat it on the head!


We went through some places with weird names… Frying Pan Creek, Misery Mountain to name but two!Then, all of a sudden there was a junction in the road… with no signposts! Hey ho, lets go that way says Jen. A truly brilliant bit of navigational guesswork and 20 miles later we came mud splatting into Grand Prairie :-) First stop, an Esso gas station as we were by now running on vapour in the main tank. But for some reason this station didn’t accept foreign cards. After a quick detour to a KFC we found a Fast-Gas full service station and managed to get 74l in the tank. It’s only an 80 litre tank, dontyaknow, so we were pretty low!

We then trucked on to Dawson Creek who’s only claim to fame is that its where the Alaska Highway begins, Mile “0” as they call it.

As it was only 4pm, we decided to head on a bit further, aiming for Fort St John, another 70-odd km up the road. On the way we went through a place called Taylor. Again nothing very exciting happening there… except a bridge over a deep gorge. It’s an old steel bridge with a steel grating type affair for a roadway. I looked out the window to see that I could see startight down to the river below! Whooping and cheering I explained this to Jen who was driving… not a good idea… she doesn’t like heights at the best of times, so she just buried the throttle peddle!

Anyway, we’re about 10km from the Charlie Lake Camp site and have pulled into a Super 8 Motel car-park to upload todays blog… aren’t we good to you lot!
More picy's later folks :-)