Our schedule was ambitious today, one of our longest driving days of the whole trip. The drive from Smithers to Cache Creek is 9 hours and 5 minutes according to Google Maps, which is if you take no breaks and average the speed limit. Canadian highways 16 and 37 are currently undergoing a large number of improvements, bringing additional passing lanes and other new infrastructure, so speed was limited in those areas, and I didn't drive my laden Jeep much faster than 110 (which is what they call 70) so it was difficult to average the speed limit. With stops, our total trip time was about twelve hours, but we did arrive in Cache Creek at around nine thirty.
Of course, we stopped at interesting places. The first place was a picnic festival with music. The opening act was just getting started, and the guitarist clued us in that today is Canada Day. The locals sure seemed enthused. They were standing in line to buy tickets, in order to stand in line to get cheeseburgers. I wonder if they learned that waiting for their socialized health care. They also had a sweet cake (see pic).
British Columbia is beautiful, let there be no doubt. We drove through countless valleys and passages. There are a lot of dead spruce trees, and we wondered if it was the result of beetles. We bought cherries with American dollars; we received Canadian change. We had a delicious club sandwich at a gas station called Husky; we tipped with the strange change. When we made it to Cache Creek, we checked into the Sage Hills Motel, and enjoyed fireworks on the overlooking hill.
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