Stop #8 July 27-28
While traveling today, we stopped in Vanderhoof, British Columbia at the Community Museum. This is the first year and they are still working at the Museum, but it was pretty nice for just a donation for admission. They had a trading building (bank), jail, cafe, gift shop, train, different farm machinery from the past. Saw a couple signs along the roadway for Giver A Yank, towing service, which I thought was really cute. Got to campground, one of the other couples on the caravan, decided to cook 3 pork loin and invited 3 other couples, great food, sat and talked til 9:45, still daylight, until a storm came through the area.
The campground that we are staying in has beautifull flowers planted every where, walked around this morning and then off to town, Houston, British Columbia. In town at the Information Center they have the World's Largest Flyrod, measuring 60 feet high, 800 pounds, reel 36 inches and fly 21 inches and is constructed entirely of aluminum and is anodized bronze to simulate graphite. At the center they also had Houston's Grizzly Bear mount, age 18-22 years old, 975 pounds and 11 feet standing, across the street they had a sculpture commemorating the outstanding accomplishment of local bull rider Rob Bell. He won the Canadian Championship in bull riding in 1999, 2000, and 2004. We then took a tour of the local Houston Sawmill, only 8 people could go on the tour at one time, we saw then unloading the logs off trucks, sawing logs, shaving logs, and the control rooms for the machinery. On the way back to camp, there was a bus selling fish, so we stopped and bought some smoked peppered salmon and smoked salmon bits. Had another GAM and a drivers meeting.