Campbell River to Lake Louise cirlce route

[konadog]

After 2 1/2 years of owning my bus I finally took her off the Island and on a good road run. My girlfriend is here from Adelaide, Australia and had never seen any of the interior of BC so we loaded up the bus, arranged a friend to take the dogs for a week, and away we went with only a general destination in mind...

Nothing fancy here, just folded the middle bench down and popped some boxes in the back.

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Dogs on the way to "holiday camp"

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Entertainments of an evening at a roadside camp near Midway

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We stopped in to have a look at this Doukabor flour mill in Grand Forks and happened on the miller who gave us a detailed tour of the 100 + year old and METICULOUSLY kept mill - the pure whole wheat flour is lovely too!

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[konadog]

Hazel was happy doing a solid 60 km/h or so up the 'ole Blueberry-Paulson - no problems on any of the big hills :)

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First glimps of the might Rockies!

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Hoodoos are cool!

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In the Mountains now...

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The high point of the trip

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We came back the Duffy Lake Road and camped in the mountains there just out of lilloeet on an ole logging spur not far off the road.

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[konadog]

A little fall colour with the incense

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Saw one deli near Grand Forks, two in Golden, one near Cache Creek, and HEEEAPS of 'em here in in the shadow of the Chief!

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The final leg of the trip saw us motor up the Sunshine Coast and across the Powell River ferry - only a few kms of backtracking the whole journey :D

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[FalcoColumbarius]

That is a wonderful road trip, I'm glad you guys had a good time... smiles.

Falco.

[mararmeisto]

Good to read that you had a good trip. Way to show off your 'rocks', as it were - they got mountains Down Under, but nothing like these. Hope she had a good time (no mention of her name, so I've used only the second person pronoun).