Getting Ready

As many of you've heard, Dad (John) and I are heading out on a 3 1/2 week roadtrip to explore the province of BC. We've got our fishing licenses, a reservation on the Port Hardy - Prince Rupert ferry, and enough beef jerky to feed the bears! While the world and gas prices go crazy around us we will be heading out in Dad's V8 Dodge Dakota (circa 1996?) so pray that we have enough money to make it home and that we can do enough to "off-set" the environmental damage!

I'll be up-dating the blog as often as I can but we're heading into truly "rural" BC so the up-dates and photo up-loads may be sporadic. Below the description is a map of BC/Yukon so you can see where we are headed!

Our route starts in Deep Bay, BC and we'll head to Port Hardy on June 26th (sorry we'll miss the graduation Bruce). On the 27th we head for Prince Rupert where, if the Gods are listening, our tour to the Khutzeymateen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary will be full! If it's we'll just find something else to do! The plan is to head from Prince Rupert to the Nisga’a Memorial Lava Bed Park then onto Stewart. We haven't decided whether or not to be Hyderized in Hyder, Alaska. From there we'll continue north on the Stewart-Cassier Highway and eventually take the Alaska Highway to Whitehorse.

After hitting Whitehorse for a day or so we'll head southeast to Watson Lake, onto Fort Nelson, Liard Hot springs, Fort St. John, Dawson Creek, over to the Bennett Dam, south to Prince George. From PG we'll head to Williams Lake and there we make the decision...are we out of time and must now fly (in a dodge truck of course) to Vancouver or can we take our time and take the gravel roads from Williams Lake to Lilloet, Pemberton, Whistler, and then back to the Island!

Well there you have it -the "plan". Stay tuned for reports on where we actually end up and just how many more (and larger) fish I catch!!

Ag