Thursday, September 08, 2005
09/07/05 Wednesday - Houston to Prince George
09/07/05 Wednesday
Today is our last travel day with the caravan. Our travel buddies are Jim and Karen Skaggs from California. They are the last couple in the caravan that we had not traveled with. We traveled from Houston to Prince George, which is about 190 miles. We had sunshine and good roads and a very uneventful trip.
Prince George is the fourth largest city in British Columbia. Its population is 80,000 and it is in an agricultural region that mostly is based on cattle and feed for them. There is also a very large logging industry on the route that we traveled. We saw three pretty large sawmills. One of them was really large. The stacks of logs on their yard ran for a long distance along the road, as did the stacks of finished lumber.
We are in a nice RV Park with big pull through sites and full hook-ups. We have learned to appreciate the space because many of the parks we have been in on this trip had less space even though they were nice. We also have 52 channels on the cable so we get a variety in our TV watching. I tried to load our satellite TV and got a response, but could not load the programming. Today is the first time we got any kink of response since July 18th. We also got our cell phone signal back today for the first time since we left Alaska of August 28th. You don’t realize how inconvenient it is to be without a telephone until it happens. We needed it several times every day.
I forgot to mention that during the unloading fiasco our closet rod was torn from the ceiling by the big bump when the coach came off the truck. We took the clothes out of the closet and worked on it last night. I used some wood glue to try to help the screws hold
better so I needed to let it set before hanging anything on it.
I finished it today. A neighbor had a drill that set the screws back in easier than I could have done it with a screwdriver.
Mary went to the laundry here in the park and caught up our washing. We have been dry camping since Friday Sept. 2nd, so the washing was kind of piling up. I guess we are about ready to head south and get back into the US. I needed to wash the care and Motor Home but it is raining and supposed to rain tomorrow and Friday. Maybe I’ll get a chance to clean up the rig in California where it doesn’t rain every day
Today is our last travel day with the caravan. Our travel buddies are Jim and Karen Skaggs from California. They are the last couple in the caravan that we had not traveled with. We traveled from Houston to Prince George, which is about 190 miles. We had sunshine and good roads and a very uneventful trip.
Prince George is the fourth largest city in British Columbia. Its population is 80,000 and it is in an agricultural region that mostly is based on cattle and feed for them. There is also a very large logging industry on the route that we traveled. We saw three pretty large sawmills. One of them was really large. The stacks of logs on their yard ran for a long distance along the road, as did the stacks of finished lumber.
We are in a nice RV Park with big pull through sites and full hook-ups. We have learned to appreciate the space because many of the parks we have been in on this trip had less space even though they were nice. We also have 52 channels on the cable so we get a variety in our TV watching. I tried to load our satellite TV and got a response, but could not load the programming. Today is the first time we got any kink of response since July 18th. We also got our cell phone signal back today for the first time since we left Alaska of August 28th. You don’t realize how inconvenient it is to be without a telephone until it happens. We needed it several times every day.I forgot to mention that during the unloading fiasco our closet rod was torn from the ceiling by the big bump when the coach came off the truck. We took the clothes out of the closet and worked on it last night. I used some wood glue to try to help the screws hold
better so I needed to let it set before hanging anything on it.I finished it today. A neighbor had a drill that set the screws back in easier than I could have done it with a screwdriver.
Mary went to the laundry here in the park and caught up our washing. We have been dry camping since Friday Sept. 2nd, so the washing was kind of piling up. I guess we are about ready to head south and get back into the US. I needed to wash the care and Motor Home but it is raining and supposed to rain tomorrow and Friday. Maybe I’ll get a chance to clean up the rig in California where it doesn’t rain every day
