Alaska Trip - Day 13

There is not a lot to report about today. We slept in late, and didn’t hit the road until noon local time.

We did manage to get the chip in the windshield fixed, and as soon as we did the entire town of Fort Nelson lost power. In fact, we waited at the windshield repair shop for about an hour until they got their generator running so that we could pay them.

We stopped to eat lunch at Buckinghorse River, about two hours southeast of Fort Nelson. They were selling t-shirts there that said “Buckinghorse, where we bucking enjoy ourselves,” or something like that.

We saw another black bear and a lot of deer, but I have a feeling we won’t see much more wildlife the rest of the trip, for now we are off the Alaskan Highway and once again on the edge of civilization.

We are staying at a motel in Chetwynd, British Columbia, the “chainsaw sculpture capital of the world.”

Here’s a sweeping generalization…most of the hotel managers in northern British Columbia are of Asian descent. Tomorrow, we plan to stay in a hostel about an hour north of Vancouver. I haven’t been feeling well tonight, so hopefully the food at Buckinghorse didn’t make me sick!