Day 7 July 8, 2025 Smithers British Columbia to Stewart British Columbia 206 miles
The continental breakfast was not much because they were out of most things. The chocolate chip muffins weren’t bad however. Lots of friendly people in there. Most were motorcyclists. Some of them had recent information about the roads to our destination.
The car was difficult to start this morning because it was wet. Rob made several attempts and then wiped down some of the engine parts and then it started reluctantly. Just so long as it keeps starting. We may decide to cover the engine at night if it keeps raining.
It rained on and off all day. Usually not too hard thank goodness. Still lots of logging trucks. Lots of other semis as well.
We had lunch at a rest stop that we are sure we stopped at last year. It’s too cold and wet to use the picnic tables. You almost need a boat to cross the big puddles to get to the tables.
A daredevil crow hopped across the road right in front of us. We came close to running over its tail. It never did fly off. It probably remembered the Woodie from last year.
We turned off the main road to go toward Stewart. We took this road last year and it began raining really hard. Last year it was cold enough to have the side curtains in place. We could smell gas for awhile but didn’t realize we were loosing fuel until we ran out. Sure glad that didn’t happen this year. We have had the side curtains on for several days because it has been cold. Today we ran the heater fan most of day while wearing light jackets. The clouds were up high enough that we were able to see one of the glaciers. It is just on the other side of the river.
Most of the road from the junction to Stewart is under construction. Today they were digging rock in one spot so we just had to slow down. Not bad at all. The road is pretty rough so it needs to be redone.
When we got to town Rob had booked the same old hotel as last year. Oops… This was the one that had sloping floors, narrow stairs, shared bathrooms and two real fire alarms in the middle of the night. We had passed at least two better looking places on the way in. Rob was wonderful and went in and got us a room in one of those other places. This room has a kitchen.
We walked to the grocery store and bought a frozen pizza, chips and a t-shirt. A dozen eggs was $4.38 in US currency. The room has a small kitchen so we planned to bake the pizza in the oven. We never really figured out how to turn the oven on and have it stay on. We did get it to be hot long enough to heat the pizza. It wasn’t the best but it also wasn’t the worst. Cookies for desert.
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