We made it! Back on American soil! What an adventure…from the incredible Canadian Rockies to the wildness of Alaska to the majestic ice fields and glaciers to the elusive large game and wildlife! We’ve covered 8500 miles with Jack & Cheeto to get back to the “lower 48!”
But let me back up and catch up on the last several days since my last post in Stewart, BC.
Moving Closer to the Border
We traveled from Stewart to a quick overnight about 30 minutes outside Smithers, BC at Witset RV Park & Campground. A very nice park. Almost wish we would have had time for another night here. It was a Canadian First Nation owned campground and had a nice museum on-site.
We then traveled to one of the largest towns we’ve been in since the beginning of the trip, Prince George, BC. We held here for 4 nights, hoping the other couple could catch up to us. After a group feast of ribs and wings, we said good-bye to Orville, as he traveled onward alone due to other obligations he had to meet.
We found a great farmers market in town, except we couldn’t buy much since you can’t take fruit, produce, chicken, eggs and such over the border. It seems we’ve caught up to the route that a lot of Canadians take to head into the southwestern states to winter. Our campground has been packed with these Canadian snow birders. The Canadians are asking us a ton of questions about the election and seem to have an infatuation with our votes this year, asking us who we’re going to vote for, do we think they’ll be riots and shootings if Trump wins, will Trump be assassinated, will he be sent to prison, etc. It’s taken us a bit by surprise at their level of interest, but it seems most are rooting for Trump.
Leaving Prince George, we made it to Cache Creek for a brief overnight, deciding to eliminate our stop in Oliver, and head straight for the border come morning! We passed through this area that was full of apple orchards and vineyards. We couldn’t stop because we weren’t sure what would be acceptable at the border.
Looks Like We Made It!!
Wow! The rigs are filthy, but we had no more incidents or problems arriving in the US; except for the border agents. All three rigs were thoroughly searched, and grocery items confiscated. Mark and I had the least of it, as Timber was a great distraction. They were so enamored with him that they didn’t even us ask us for our Timber papers!!! Actually, this border crossing is what we had been expecting each time and it never happened until the last one! Ha!
We had a long line ahead of us
After surviving the search, we had about 30 miles to our first US destination… a casino with an RV campground attached! We were so excited to be in warm, dry weather! We were able to break out the shorts, which we haven’t had on since mid-July!! The park was very nice and we enjoyed a casual farewell dinner in the casino restaurant. The other two couples (Mike & Liz and Jeff & Rhonda) decided to extend their stay by two more nights to allow the tag behind couple (Scott & Carolyn) to finally catch up, but Mark and I have other commitments. It was a bit sad leaving.
On Our Own
It almost seems a little odd traveling by ourselves these last two days. We stayed last night along the Snake River in Colfax, WA at Boyer Park and the tip of Lower Granite Dam. While it was very scenic here, we could tell it would be packed in the summertime. The overwhelming tiny white bugs and tons of very sticky spiderwebs were an annoyance, but we had a great walk with Timber down to the dam along the river. The breeze kept the bugs at bay.
Tonight we are in Grangeville, ID because Mark wanted to see a ski area, known as Snowhaven. It is smaller than we expected. Tomorrow we travel to another ski town called Tamarack.
A New Map
I’ve attached our map for the remainder of our trip home. I’ll explain the discrepancies from the home page image in another post.
And – you are now where we are on the route!
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