Today was a day for being flexible. We left Summerland, B.C. right at our usual 8:30 AM start time. We were going to take Route 97c around Kelowna, Vernon, and Kamloops, but there was fog, sleet, and ice up on the passes so we stayed on plain old 97 instead which added about 50 miles and gave us a tour of each town's downtown section. Better safe then sorry.
Just past Kamloops Rich blew a trailer tire - yes, another Chinese "May-pop" bit the dust. So we turned his pit stop into a lunch stop. We finally hit Cache Creek on the Cariboo Trail and pointed it north again under clearing skies and an excellent version of Route 97.
All this toil did not go un-rewarded. We decided that our intended stop at Hixon, B.C. was 100 miles too far, so we pulled into the
Signal Point Gaming (casino) at Williams Lake. Free overnight parking for our rigs and very, very good food - in fact the restaurant was superb. It was two for one steak and prawns night!
Tomorrow we'll reach for Dawson Creek, B.C. and the actual start of the Alaska Highway. It's 400 miles from here so we'll see what happens.
The casino stop might become a habit! From there it's only a slippery step or three to WalMart!
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