First Principles

Finally, after we got on the other side of the Canadian Cascades, the mountains served to protect us from the weather instead of funneling it our way.  We’d run into a few more wet patches along the way, but weather-wise, the worst was really behind us.  It’s amazing we could travel so many miles and be so fortunate with the weather.

Of course, getting to the drier side meant getting up into the mountains, and things were getting rugged again.  We started to see a lot of these avalanche signs, which graphically seemed pretty comical until you saw the massive rock slides behind them.  We were certainly glad we were driving a vehicle that wasn’t literally being held together with duct tape, like this guy.

The rockier terrain and the newly emerged sun made for some really great pictures, and I took full advantage.

As we drove farther north, the geography started flattening out again.  At first British Columbia started looking like Nevada – not something I would have expected!  But that gave way to greener farmland as we got lower and lower, with a stray odd rock formation, lake, or swamp along the way.

We stopped by this lake, called Lake McLeese, to stretch our legs for a little bit.  But as pretty as it was, we were impatient to get going again…

And it wasnt just because we wanted to make our miles for the day.  We were getting closer to our campsite, and we still didn’t have any beer or whiskey yet!

We stopped in Prince George to remedy that situation.  The people in the liquor store were friendly, if a bit odd.  I give them props for being patient with me when I was trying to determine the difference between a Loony and a Twoney, and even admitting that their money was “funny lookin’.”

One of the featured beers was called “Dude Beer,” which comes in 15-packs of cans, and only cans.  We decided on the Kokane instead.  There was no reason to be completely uncivilized.  We supplemented our beer purchase with a bottle of (what else?) Canadian whisky, and headed towards our campite for the night.