Over the weekend we kept checking the various weather websites and were frustrated as it looks like it'll rain for a solid week in Bella Coola. Yet, we're not actually sleeping there any nights. We'll probably camp just one night in the South Tweedsmuir Provincial Park along Highway 20 at our closest. The mid-BC coast is often rainy. People didn't used to obsessively worry about the weather before heading off on a road trip, even those using a tent!
So, we have decided to just go for it. (Can I use that phrase without breaking Nike copyright?) The truck is packed and we're about to head to the Sea-to-Sky Highway to head north. Hopefully, we'll get to Marble Canyon for an early practice setting up a new tent. It's been quite a while since we visited the Lillooet area as we often find ourselves traveling east in British Columbia rather than northwards.
We have become more familiar using airports when going somewhere, so a few days camping along the road will be a different sort of travel for us. I will turn 56 during the week away. During most of the week we'll be in locations without cell or Internet coverage, so maybe I'll be filling in these pages after we sneak back to New Westminster, hopefully on Friday.
It's a good day to start a new journey as we stopped 20 years of practice on this date in 2005 and made it official. That was, by chance, the exact date that doing so became lawful across the entire country of Canada. That adds up to a total of 30 years, doesn't it?