Alaska #8: Relatives; safely home
News, Photography ·Sunday August 31, 2008 @ 14:55 EDT (link)
20080830: (Williams Lake, BC to Abbortsford: 296 miles.)
We left the Vanderburghs at 0912; the power was still out. We stopped at Tim Horton's 0927-0937 to get donuts, and again for gas at Lac La Hache. Since my battery had run out on the way up, we stopped at 108 Mile House ranch to get photos 1035-1049.
We reached Boston Bar at 1324, got gas, changed; radio indicated one of the tunnels was closed (truck wreck Sailor Bar) but it was open to alternating traffic when we got there; good thing: there aren't really any alternate routes to highway 1 (the Trans-Canada). It took us 40 minutes to get past (1330-1410, passed the truck at 1351). At 1437 we got to the Flood-Hope Road exit on highway 1 West out of Hope, and at 1525 we drove into visitor parking at my Uncle John and Aunt Sharon Sutherland's condominium complex.
We had a good talk, and they gave us a great dinner, and took us for a walk at the the nearby monastery (St. Clare's, in Mission).
20080831: (Abbotsford, BC to Duvall, WA: 113 miles.) We left in the morning at 1016, waited at the border at Sumas at 1020-1045 (again, no problems, just a queue), and arrived back home at 1325.
Total distance driven: 5644 miles (9083 kilometers).
Books finished: Polgara the Sorceress.
We reached Boston Bar at 1324, got gas, changed; radio indicated one of the tunnels was closed (truck wreck Sailor Bar) but it was open to alternating traffic when we got there; good thing: there aren't really any alternate routes to highway 1 (the Trans-Canada). It took us 40 minutes to get past (1330-1410, passed the truck at 1351). At 1437 we got to the Flood-Hope Road exit on highway 1 West out of Hope, and at 1525 we drove into visitor parking at my Uncle John and Aunt Sharon Sutherland's condominium complex.