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| A new kind of selfie |
With
just under 300 miles to drive today, and the bad road warnings we got up
early. We started our coffee and
preparation to leave. We were on the
road by 7:30. The route was straight forward,
north on AB-97A all the way to the RV Park in Fort Nelson. The first part of the drive was through prairie
and then a mix of prairie and forest, finally giving way to mostly pine forest
with a few aspens mixed in.
The
briefing information about bad roads with frost heaves was based on last year’s
information. It was obvious a lot of
work had been done and was being done.
We passed through two construction zones. Here was a lot of heavy truck traffic. We were passed in both directions by more
four wheel drive Ford F-250s than you can imagine existed. Automobiles were greatly outnumbered even by
RVs.
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| Along Route 97A |
In
spite of signs warning of moose every ½ mile or so, we never saw one. As a matter of fact we saw no wildlife during
the drive.
We
stopped and had breakfast at Shepherd’s Inn.
We missed the turn in, realizing our mistake as we saw members of our
group waving from the parking lot. We
had to go about a mile and a half to turn around. The restaurant was highly recommended. It lived up to its name. We both had biscuits, gravy two eggs and hash
browns. Gerri also had a rasher of
bacon. We both had leftovers.
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| Slide out casualty |
The
road continued to be in good repair. I
was able to comfortably maintain a speed of 55-60 mph. In the town of Fort Nelson I fueled up even
though we had over half a tank. We
arrived at the RV Park, the Triple G Hideaway, and were parked and set up by
3:45. When I had to make a sudden stop at a construction zone the TV controls had fallen off the counter. Gerri didn't see them when she put out the living room slide. The TV control was crushed. It probably won't matter for awhile, we are too far north for our dish to pickup a signal.
There
was a briefing on tomorrow’s travel and the next campground at 5pm. Besides road and parking information we got a
list of all the wildlife we had missed but that others had seen. The list consisted of moose, a black bear, a
grizzly bear and a fox.
The
RV Park had a restaurant that offered a buffet and a full menu. We opted to have dinner in the coach. Gerri fixed a large salad, oven baked some apple and
chicken sausage. Combined with asparagus
left over from a few nights ago we had a great meal.
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| The Triple G Hideaway Office |
Just
before dinner a thunderstorm with hard rain passed through. It lasted about an hour. After it cleared up outside I walked to a
cache about a third of a mile away. It
was very muddy out. I walked by a small
museum that has old vehicles outside, many of them had been used during the
construction of the Alaska Highway. The
museum doesn’t open until 10 AM, so I don’t know if we will say until then or leave
for Liard Hot Springs earlier. It is 190
miles to the next campground and has no wifi.
The
internet reception was slow and frustrating.
So we went to bed with our Sudoku books.
I did two puzzles before I was too tired to concentrate. Gerri lasted a little longer.
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