Friday, August 03, 2007

Well, today we took off driving, early....(9 AM is early) . We are back in the land of sunsets, now, twilight is about 10 PM, so it actually gets almost dark at night....not sure if I like it. We continued South, towards Prince George, and had a couple of incidents.....the road is good, so we were going about 65 M.P.H. when a Caribou decided to come out of the brush and cross the road! The big rig, behind us, had to lock it up, too!
Then, after we regained our heartbeat....and speed...about an hour later, 2 RVs in front of us nearly wrcked and we nearly barrelled into the back of them, when a bear sauntered across the road! Jeez!

We stopped on a turnout on the side of the road, for a break, and Libby, our Jungle cat, really enjoyed walking out into the grass......she's loving her "freedom" (on a leash) and Jimmy took the dogs to play in one of the many rivers we crossed.

Then, as we went along, after the cutoff to Price George, he started noticing that there were no fuel stops around, like on the other roads.....and it was getting pretty important! So, I started digging through the Milepost (travelers bible) to try and find one. After getting increasingly concerned.......I finally found one at the junction with highway 39 to MacKenzie. About 20 miles away.

We turned off any A/C and coasted whenever we could....luckily, a lot of the way was downhill. We pulled into the gas station and both pumps were in use, so we had to wait......yep, you guessed it....it died, right there! Anyway, when it was our turn, Jimmy had to spray starting fluid into the engine, while I drove up to the pumps.......Whew! Another crisis averted! What a day!

Tomorrow, we will make it back into Seattle, where we see some friends, and think of our great memories we have made, on this trip.
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

OH MY GOSH..

SO THANKFUL FOR YOU THAT YOU AVERTED TWO ACCIDENTS...THANK GOD.. SO STRESSFUL ...AND THAT CLOSE ON FUEL.. WE WILL HAVE THAT SAME KIND OF TRIALS WHEN OUR ALASKA TRIP COMES UP...PLEASE STAY SAFE AND I BET IT WILL BE A HAPPY FEELING TO CROSS INTO THE LOWER 48.. EVENTHOUGH I KNOW YOUR TRIP IS AN OUTSTANDING ONE... TAKE CARE.. LYNETTE