Day 60: Travel to Vanderhoof, BC

WOW is all we can say about this trip.  The scenery was superb, weather was great, food was wonderful, and the caravaners were AWESOME.

This is a very sad day for us, because this is our last day of traveling with the Alaska Caravan group.

We started our day as usually this morning by getting up 5:00.  Doing our daily readings and getting our self ready for the day.  What a beautiful day this is.  Blue sky, in the low 70's, and no wind.  Around 7:30, Jim started thumping tires and checking out the RV's. This is what he always does, before anyone travels.  He wants to make sure that the caravaners are starting out with no problems with their rigs.

Jim is Thumping David & Jackie's tires
 

Everyone was out of the park by 10:30 and we were all on our way. The Riverside Golf & RV Park was a nice park to stay.  It was surranded by a golf course and it had large RV sites.

Jim was cleaning our windows before leaving

We never got tired of the beautiful scenery of snow topped mountians, lakes, flowers and trees.  As we travel toward Vanderhoof we are beginning to see a lot more of the fall colors. I was just a little confused because when the growth along side the highway is ugly it is weeds, but when it is beautiful it is flowers. 

Beautiful green trees with the mountain as a background

Pink, green, yellow and orange flowers along side the road

Yellow and green flowers along side the road

Our first stop was in Houston.  Their "Claim to Fame" is the World Largest Fly Fishing Rod. 

World's largest Fly Fishing Rod

Our next stop was Burns Lake.  We had 6 RVer's who were taking a lunch break and were grocery shopping at Overwaitea.  The grocery store got its name because in 1915 they started giving 18 oz of tea and sold it for a pound.  The concept continued and so did the name.

Burns Lake (cute car)

We finally made it to our final destination: Vanderhoof, BC.

Vanderhoof sign

At 5:00 we all left for our farewell dinner together.  We had a great meal and everyone shared what they liked best for the last 60 days.  Now this was something that took a long time for everyone to share.  There were so many things that everyone talked about like:  Seeing the Northern Lights, the Bubble Net Whale Feeding, seeing bears fishing, the trip thru Denali, seeing McKinley, the beauty at Homer & Kenai Peninsula, going fishing, Calgary Stampede, Liard Hot Springs, Banff, drinking glacier water at the Ice Fields, driving the Top of the World Highway, being part of the Fantic Follies and Diamond Tooth Gerties shows, the many boat rides, riding the White Pass & Yukon train,  Palmer, many many socials and how blessed they were to have seen so much with great weather and great fellow RVers. (sorry that we forgot a few of them)

Submitted by Rig #2

Jim and Betty

We would like to especially thank all of guest who took this special adventure with us.  They have made this a very very special time for us, and we will never forget them or the beauty we saw through Canada and Alaska.