Oh my! It’s over already. Time really flies when you are having fun. Prince George is the final stop in the 49-day caravan. From here, we all depart and go our own way home or on to other adventures. Traveling the Alaska Highway is an experience! Every time you think you’ve seen it all, you turn a corner and another “Wow” awaits you.
8/01/10 Sunday: Another beautiful day, we left Stewart to drive to Smithers, BC. Both the weather and roads were good. We are now getting far enough south the we’re into agriculture, mostly hay, recently cut and rolled. We had a bonus dinner, no included in the original schedule, for the group tonight at a nearby lodge.
8/02/10 Monday: Travel day 2 to Prince George, BC. Another nice day to our final destination of the caravan. On the way, we found a nice rest stop along side of a creek with salmon fighting their way upstream and enjoyed a picnic lunch there with another couple from the caravan. Shortly after arrival at the campground, a social was held with enough wonderful snacks from all to qualify as dinner.
8/03/10 Tuesday: Today was a Free Day, except for the Farewell Dinner. Having now passed 20,000 miles on the rig, it was time for servicing it. I found a Truck and Equipment place that could service me and headed down to it after lunch. In addition to the Norman grease and oil/oil filter change, I also had the air cleaner filter changes (we drove is a lot of dust during the trip) and the gas filter changed (went through a lot of no-name gas up in Alaska). The dogs were well past their normal grooming and we found a mobile groomer who would come to us tomorrow and do both dogs. Because of this, we stayed an extra day in Prince George.
As I said, tonight was our Farewell Dinner. We were bussed to a wonderful lodge overlooking a beautiful lake where we enjoyed the best buffet we’ve had on this trip. After dinner, our choral group of nine sang “We Will Miss Alaska”, sung to the tune of “Let Me Call You Sweetheart”…the words by one of our Tailgaters, Kathy Miller. Various members of our group shared their thoughts and memories of the caravan, then gifts were given to each couple by the Hosts and Tailgaters. It was a very special evening with our new caravan friends.
8/04/10 Wednesday: A continental breakfast was held from 7:00 – 8:30 a.m. which gave all a chance to give and get hugs from all a say our farewells to many of our new friends. Four other coaches besides us stayed on for another day. The dog groomer showed up at 7:30 a.m. and the two pups got their hair cuts. After they were done, Marcia and I did some grocery shopping, After lunch, Marcia did laundry and I, having almost forgotten what color our rig was there was so much dried mud on it, washed the rig. All five remaining couples went out to dinner together and had an enjoyable evening afterward sitting around the campground conversing before saying our final “good nights”. And so ends our wonderful 7-week long Alaska Caravan. Tomorrow we begin our trek home.
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