Moving to Alaska: Day Nineteen

Well, after yesterday's lost five hours, we really wanted to try and make up some time today. So we started really early, before daylight. Since it was not overly cold last night the furry copilot slept in the car. He might have been happier in the tent but space was at a premium so we made him a blanket pile in the backseat. Besides, they have bears in the area and we did not want noisy bait!!!

We made a stop for a letterbox at a scenic view, and of course I forgot to take my camera from the car so no photos. We had lunch in a park in Prince George that was rather nippy since it was on top of a hill and the wind was blowing pretty hard. We looked for a couple other letterboxes along the drive including one at the world's largest fly fishing rod, just to take short breaks.

But really today was all about driving. Minimal pictures. The only item of note for the day was we checked the weather forecast while in Prince George and based on what we were driving in so far, opted to take the shorter, narrower, less travelled road north since this is the decision point. Either cross over the mountains to the official start of the Alaska Highway or take a different route that stays on the west side of the Rockies before crossing much further north. So to the west we went.

Yeah, this is another pretty boring entry but it was a pretty boring day too. We pulled into a tiny town about 9:30pm that has a park with a couple free tent camping spots (which we did not know about; the place we intended to stay was closed for the season) so we set up there while again intending to head out very early since it is a long way to get all the way off the "side highway" and back to the Alaska Highway.

Start: Cache Creek, British Columbia

Stop: Kitwanga, British Columbia

~580 Miles Driven

~3.8 Miles Walked
2 Letterboxes Found

3 Letterboxes Not Found

0 Letterboxes Planted

Pictures will be posted on Facebook in this album (and the link will be included in all future posts for this trip):

Moving to Alaska Photos