On the Road

On the Road email #13 Page 2 of 6 (June 20-25) Whidbey Is. to Clinton, BC

Sat/Sun, June 23-24 Joe & Nancy Sue Reeves "On the Road" (Whidbey Island):
      Saturday, Joe took the car for repairs, then worked on the M/H. Tom and Pauline Elder, the campground hosts, came down this afternoon for coffee and pie. They have been very friendly and helpful to us and we plan to keep in contact with them. Smokey stayed out all afternoon watching a bunny nest in the wild roses across the road, where a couple of small ones came out to play. Joe is working on e-mail tonight and will try to get it off tomorrow.
      Sunday, Sue went to the laundry this morning while Joe worked on the M/H, then we went to the galley for brunch. Joe went to the Activity Center to do e-mail. Tomorrow we head for Canada. We'll stop in Bellingham, WA, so Joe can go to the airport to ship his guns to Alaska. Apparently, air freight is the only legal way to get them there. Canada likes to keep their citizens totally defenseless and takes a dim view of private citizens owning sidearms or even transporting them through the country.
Monday, June 25 (Clinton, B.C., Canada):
     We saw a couple of Bald Eagles this morning. We'd seen them before but forgot to mention it in the e-mail. We said goodby to our new friends, the Elders, left Whidbey Island about 10 AM and stopped at Walmart in Bellingham, WA. Sue got pictures developed while Joe took his guns to the airport to ship to Alaska. Whoever told him air frieght was only a little more costly than UPS, was badly misinformed. It cost $60 to ship 2 guns to Anchorage, AK, and they said if they weren't picked up in 2 weeks, they might send them, NOT to the home address, but back to Bellingham. It might've been easier to smuggle them through Canada. They didn't even ask us for ID at the border. Of course, if we'd had the guns, they'd likely have torn the RV apart and we'd be in a Canadian jail tonight. Joe also went to Home Depot for plywood for a rock shield on the front of the car, a piece of foam board to put over the windshield and straps to hold it all on. We got away about 3 PM and drove until 8:30PM to Clinton B.C., but as far north as we are, the sun didn't set until after 9PM. We followed river canyons most of the way with the road cut into the side of a mountain and the river and a railroad track down below. We also went through, at least 7 or 8 tunnels. It was a very pretty drive. Just before we got here, we were held up for about 20 minutes by a wreck. An 18 wheel lumber truck had lost it on the crooked mountain road, left skid marks for quite a distance, rolled over and smashed into the mountain. The cab of the truck looked like a smashed tin can and there was lumber everywhere. The campground host, here, said he heard it turned over on top of a car. In any case it was a bad one. The host says they have wrecks about once a week, here, with lumber or log trucks. Guess they're slow learners. See Canada Photos.
Joe & Nancy Sue "On the Road", Clinton, BC