Monday, June 11, 2007

Driving through History



Cooler in the morning here. It's a delight to follow the Cariboo Wagon Trail as we head north. We passed 100 Mile and 150 Mile and many more small towns that used to be roadhouses for the horse-drawn stagecoaches and freight wagons of the B.C. Express Line known as the B.X. This drive is a living history lesson when you're passing the old log cabins, barns and fences. We lunched and fueled at Prince George and ended at Smithers at 7 p.m. We parked in the lot of the Bulkley Valley Wholesale warehouse under the ski runs on the mountain. After dinner and cards, I read by the daylight until 10:40 p.m. These long northern days always surprise me.

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