Jasper to Vanderhoof

Thursday, June 10.  As we sat at our breakfast table in the RV this morning eating our breakfast, an elk was eating her breakfast right outside our window.

We watched her for quite a while as she browsed through our area.  We were on the road shortly after 8:00, and -- would you believe, we drove 291 miles today!!!  Pretty awesome for us old folks.  We started out in rain again, about 42 degrees.   The clouds obscured most of the mountain views, including Robson Mountain, which is the tallest peak in British Columbia.  I had issues when we had the view of that one, so I didn't get a picture, but here's some of the clouds.  We have left the spectacular Canadian Rockies, but they were really something to behold.

After a couple hours, and maybe 100 miles, we hit sunshine.  When we stopped for lunch, it was a hot 72 degrees.  We routed out a couple of deer when we pulled off for lunch.  They came back as we were leaving, I guess they hadn't finished their lunch either.

As we moved north, the scenery changed to lower pines in the mountains, and then farmland.  Joe spotted a black bear, but all I saw was a black blur.  However, later on, I spotted a tree with 4 small bears (Dave saw 6), two in the tree and two underneath.  Since we were not in the dinghy, Joe couldn't make one of his patented u-turns, so he didn't get to see them at all.

We did, however, spot our first Canadian moose, just by the treeline by the road.  No picture, we were moving too fast.  But it was exciting to see.  We had been looking for moose for a long time, and we hadn't seen any since those two outside of Coeur d'Alene.

We made it to Prince George right after lunch, so we continued on another 60 miles to Vanderhoof.
Here's a picture coming into Prince George.

We got to our campground shortly after 2:00, and it is a very nice campground.  You never know what you are going to get when you pull in, but this one is very pretty, clean, and nicely set up.  There's always chores to do for all of us, so Marilyn did a little maintenance on Dave this evening.

And here is me, sending an e-mail to Kaylee.  We got to talk to the kids (Tiffany, Cody, Kaylee, John, Bridgette), and Jeff and Brenda, tonight on Skype, so it was good to catch up with everyone after several days of being out of touch.  Hopefully, we can keep in better contact now that we have left the national parks behind.  We are heading toward Prince Rupert tomorrow, don't know if we will make it the whole way or not.  Just imagine that I have a hat on, because bad hair days are regular occurrences.