I was chatting in MS Teams with a friend who recently got back from an Alaskan cruise. I was asking about Prince Rupert, BC as it is a relatively new stop for Holland America Line cruises. I took the above photo the last and only time we were in town.
Jay and I visited by taking a 'BC Ferries/road trip'. We started by taking a ferry over to Vancouver Island. Then, we headed to the northern most tip of Port Hardy to catch an Inside Passage ferry. After a night in a hotel, we drove onboard. As it included an overnight journey, we bought a sleeping cabin onboard the ship for night two.
Eventually, we disembarked in Prince Rupert. We looked around before heading back by road. The way back home by road is around 920 miles. However, we did a few stops when checking out Kitimat and driving a bit on the Glacier Highway to Stewart, BC.
That little town is next to the Alaskan Panhandle. We drove into Alaska. We knew when passing a closed border station as the road turned to dirt. We stayed only a half hour and by the time we got back to the border, a Canadian lady officer was there. She was cheerful and most interested because we had a pet hamster with us. I don't think we were allowed to pass through without papers for it, but we did manage to keep the animal, lovingly referred to as H2 for hamster #2.
We eventually returned to the Lower Mainland through Prince George. I can't remember how many days the 2000-mile trip was because it happened twenty years ago, this year! Oh, and as we travelled in April, the trip was five months before this blog began!