Fort Nelson to Dawson Creek

We have become scavengers, pocketing extra sugars and peanut-butter packets at gas stations and truck stops. Napkins quickly disappear into our pockets, and "free coffee with fill-up" is never turned down. These skills will come in handy on our voyage to Mexico!


Today's trip was uneventful. We travelled from Fort Nelson to Dawson Creek, where mile "0" of the Alaska Highway is located, and are now camping at a little place with trees and grass and picnic tables, a far cry from last night's gas station.


The weather has gotten warmer at an alarmingly fast rate - Oliver didn't even need his sweater today, and it stayed warm overnight last night. That's a far cry from our Dawson nights, when we would wake up to frost on the truck! We're finally back to an almost normal sunlight schedule - in Dawson the sun would be up for another two hours at least, but we've only got another 20 minutes or so here. It's 7:15pm.

We've almost left the remote wilderness behind, but even though there are some buildings along the highways now, the people are shutting up shop for the winter. We drove for over three hours between Fort Nelson and Fort St. John before we could find a single restaurant that was still open for lunch. We therefore got lunch around 3:30pm today so we're having a very light supper at the campsite. Dawson Creek isn't all that interesting so I'll go finish some of my earlier posts and sign off for now.

Prince George (again) tomorrow, where they have FOSTER KITTENS!