World's Largest Fly Rod & Tintagel Cairn

We got up this morning at 7:00 and prepared to leave Riverside Park. Before leaving this morning, Mike called our roadside service, Coach-Net, to complain to a supervisor about the problems we had when we called from Watson Lake about our flat tire on the RV. We were given an address where we can mail the receipt for the tire change so we are reimbursed for the expense.

We left the campground at 8:30 and drove south on Hwy 16. We actually had sunshine this morning – a welcome change from the rain we’ve had the last few days.

We stopped in Houston to take a photo of the World’s Largest Fly Rod.

From Smithers to Quesnel

From Smithers to Quesnel

The topography has changed and we are now driving through farm land.

From Smithers to Quesnel

An hour after driving through Houston we drove through Burns Lake and took a few photos as we were driving through.

From Smithers to Quesnel

We stopped at a rest area about 12 miles south of Burns Lake to see the Tintagel Cairn.

From Smithers to Quesnel

According to the information in the 2011 The Milepost (we use it  to help us find interesting places to take photos), the center stone in the cairn once formed part of the Norman walls of Tintagel Castle which is reputed to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

From Smithers to Quesnel

We stopped for lunch at noon at a rest area east of Fort Fraser. There was a historic marker at the rest area commemorating the last spike being driven for Canada’s second trans-continental railroad.

From Smithers to Quesnel

We drove through Vanderhoof which is the geographic center of British Columbia on the Alaska Circle Route.

From Smithers to Quesnel

We passed through Prince George at 2:00 and left the Yellowhead Highway and turned south onto Highway 97 or the West Access Route.

From Smithers to Quesnel

We arrived at Wal-Mart in Quesnel a little after 3:30 and there were already a few RVs parked here. We drove 307 miles today.

Since we are close to the US/Canada border, I cranked up our satellite dish to see if we could get any TV reception. I had a pretty good signal and was able to receive Dish Network. But our programming was messed up (it said we needed to subscribe to the networks which we already subscribe to) and I tried calling Dish, but all I got was a busy signal. Apparently their 800 number doesn’t work in Canada – how frustrating!

Mike called Coast to Coast to make a reservation for Aug 26 – Sept 1 at Ferndale. He also called the FamCamp at Ft. Lewis for the Labor Day weekend, but they are already full. He then called the FamCamp for McCord AFB and they don’t take reservations. Since we’re going to be arriving on Thursday, Sept 1, it shouldn’t be a problem for us to find a campsite.

After a little while I went into Wal-Mart to buy a couple of things we needed and then later we ate dinner and settled in for the night.

Since we’re not able to watch satellite TV, we watched some of our Babylon 5 DVDs.