June 24, 2007 – British Columbia

Today’s travels took us through the interior of British Columbia. The scenery changed from mountains to rolling hills (although the “hills” are more like our mountains back home) to farmland (many horses and cattle – and even a few llamas). We left the desert type areas and entered the heavily forested areas dotted with many beautiful lakes.

We stopped at 100 Mile House (yes, that is the name of the town) to use their free dump and to fill with water. Then we stopped at 150 Mile House to fuel. There are a number of towns/burgs on this road based on the old Cariboo Wagon Road that started in Lillooet. 100 Mile House is 100 miles from Lillooet, 108 Mile House is 108 miles from Lillooet, etc.

We are slowly getting use to the metric system of liters, meters, and kilometers. But everything is so much more expensive here - gas ($4.34/gallon), food, and campgrounds. We were going to spend time along this route but decided to spend our downtime on the Alaska Highway. So we are driving every day until we get to Dawson Creek – Milepost 0.

We are definitely on the Alaskan route. Our campground last night filled up after I took the posted picture and many of them are going to Alaska. Many of the people we met today are also heading that way – Incredible!!

We stayed at 10 Mile Lake Provincial Park – nice campground and similar to our state parks.

The lake:

The lakeside trail:

Andy and his flags at our site:

And the best – a campfire – but Andy had to split the wood:

Miles Traveled: 198 miles
Routes Traveled:
British Columbia: BC-97