back to our island

So we set out bright and (kinda) early from Prince George on Friday morning and found the Williams Lake SPCA without too much trouble early in the afternoon. We loaded up our kittens and they are CUTE! All five are from the same litter, but two look siamese-ish, one is white with an orange tail, one is a cute smokey grey guy and the last little one was fluffy and orange. All that, from a tortie mother!

We loaded them into the back of the truck inside their large crate, which also contained their litter box and a blanket to sleep on. At every pit stop we gave them food and water and the weather was perfect for them - not too hot but not too cool either, the entire trip!


As we slowly got closer to the teeming metropolis of Vancouver, the traffic got more stressful and the roads were the pits! Through Langley and Surrey, they were actually the worst road surfaces we had encountered on our entire trip - excepting only the half-paved, half-dirt Top Of The World Highway to Alaska. The difference was, on the way to Alaska, we could go whatever pace we wanted to because there were so few other vehicles. In the suburbs of Vancouver, through the clearly marked 50 zone we were driving in, we were going OVER the speed limit to try to keep up and people were passing us like we were sitting still. We were watching everyone cut each other off and do lots of rude and dangerous driving manoeuvers and I had visions of being rear-ended by some pompous pudgy businessman in an SUV. Eek!

We kept driving late into the evening just to get the Vancouver highways out of the way and, knowing we wouldn't need power or a pretty treed site, we simply stopped at a rest area along the highway that Mark remembered from a previous trip. Did we ever score! The rest area actually had a pretty treed area for RVs that was well off the highway, and they had indoors bathrooms that were open 24 hours a day! So we camped for free in relative luxury that night.

We put the kittens' crate in the Boler and let them all out onto the bed with us. They were shy at first but got used to us pretty quickly. They did well overnight - not too much noise, not too much stinking up the joint, and the temperature stayed mild all night which was great for the little bitty kitties.


The next morning we made it to the ferry terminal and after a long wait for a ferry and an uneventful crossing, we made it back to our island! Of course there were errands to run before collapsing. We had to drop off the Boler at home, take the kittens to the shelter, and OF COURSE get some take-out sushi, and there we were, home at last.

Well, I guess this is it for the Yukon trip, and from here on in I'll just be posting Mexico stuff. Wow. That's gonna be soon, isn't it? I hope you guys enjoyed our road trip - I know I did!


Later!