Bybee's Travels

May 27-June 4, 2012

We drove to Prince George on the 27th, planned to stay 2 nights but stayed 3 because they had a Walmart and Costco, we also needed to do laundry and house cleaning and have a day off (kinda).
I didn't take many pictures while we were there.  On the 29th we all came back to our rigs around three o'clock and there was a beautiful Winnebago Journey parked next to the Batty's, Larry said when they came in they were looking at our rigs so I went over and it was the W.I.T. Western Regional Rep's, Jeannie and Andy Bienvenue.  Hope I spelled her name correctly.  We had planned to cook out that night so we invited them and being from Louisiana they brought smoked Louisiana sausages and dirty rice to add to our grilled pork tenderloin, baked yams and salad with angel food/strawberry shortcake with whipped cream. YUM!!!!

May 30 we left, going to Dawson Creek, B.C.  We had planned to stay one night but decided to stay two.  We were late getting there (around 4 PM) and didn't get to do all we wanted.  Next day we went in all different directions, found the mile marker 0 downtown.  We had agreed to meet at 2:30 for a group picture at mile marker 0 (A very busy intersection downtown).  We met a man there on the corner (dressed VERY casually in a Homeland Security T-Shirt) he was a city councilman.  He told us to just go out and DO it, every one in town was used to it, then proceeded to go into some kind of museum and brought out an employee to do the photographs.....people are friendly without fail!

There is Darlene...all by herself having
her picture made...getting braver by the day
Go Darlene!




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The gang

For dinner we had left over pork tenderloin, baked yams, cesaer salad and strawberry shortcake.  Larry and Judy went to see a car show in town.  Enjoyed the extra night stay and feel more rested.

We left at 8AM (6/1/12) heading for Ft. Nelson, B.C., gased up (painful) and empty holding tanks.
First stop was 17 miles down the road.  Kiskatinaw River Bridge.  The only timber bridge on the Alaka Highway still in use today.  I chose to walk across it.  :-)

We stayed at Triple G Hideaway Campground in Ft. Nelson.  There was a museum next door with various exhibits of old cars, trucks, machinery, wildlife, pioneer homes and much more.  We watched an old movie from the mid 1940's about the Alaska Highway construction.  I also met my first 'character'.  His name is Marl Brown.  He was the engine behind the formation of the museum.  He had such a collection of 'stuff' it gave him a place to store it, made his wife happy.  There was a news article we read showing a picture of him bearded and less the beard.  The community had a fund raiser for the museum and Marl put his beard up for auction.  He has always hated to shave so this
was a big deal.  They raised over $10,000. and he had to shave it off 

The man on the right is my character.
He offered me a chew, I declined but
was happy I did when I learned later
he recycles, including his chewing
tobacco.

Marl, using his wood splitter he made

On June 2 we left Ft. Nelson, stopped at Tetsa River Campground to buy cinnamon rolls, advertised on the highway.  They were soooo good and worth the stop.  We stayed at Liard Hot Springs Provencial Campground and Judy and I took a dip in the hot springs.  It was a cold, rainy, dreary day but we hiked about a quarter mile to the springs and it was WONDERFUL.  The closer to mouth of the springs, the hotter it got.  Very relaxing.  The campground was really pretty, no hook ups but I think it was worth it.

June 3 we arrived at Watson Lake around noon.  We had lunch and started working on our signs to leave in the Sign Forest.  With Judy and Larry's help we completed them, took a ladder over and hung them on a post.  At 7 we walked across the road and watch the Northern Lights show which lasted about 1 hour.  It was very good.



Larry hanging our signs



Northern Lights Auditorium

small part of sign forest

More shots from the road