100 Mile House- This baffled us. Why were all these towns called 10 Mile House and 93 Mile House? After arriving at 100 Mile House, where we decided to camp in their city campground for a couple of days, we got our answer. We are following the Gold Dust Trail. Stops along the trail were marked in miles from a town called Lillooet, a major Gold Town in its day (1800’s). The weather has been beautiful, in the high 80’s. We rode our bikes all around town yesterday, and took a drive out to a fishing lake. This is a holiday weekend in Canada. There is a parade downtown this morning, and a big rodeo. We found out that we are remotely related to a rodeo star, Lyndsay Sears, who is World Champion Women’s Barrel Racer. I am wondering if she is at this rodeo?
In 100 Mile House, Denny played golf for the first time. The golf course is called the Marmet Preserve Golf Course. It is actually a preserve for the yellow-bellied marmet and one badger! Denny said the course was full of holes. He saw one marmet.
We camped right on the creek within walking distance of town. A short distance away was the beautiful Bridge Creek Falls.
One Hundred Mile House to Quesnel- This road was beautiful and the temperature all day was in the mid 70’s. We stopped along the river to make lunch. Quesnal has a museum of the Caribou gold country, and we spent a long time in there. It was really amazing. We both decided we learned nothing about Canada in all of our education.
We have enjoyed picking up a little French, as a lot of the signs are in French. Also, even the English is different. We went to church Sunday in 100 Mile House, and the pastor spoke of a First Nations man. We decided that it is what we would call a Native American. They have many different words for things, for instance, they call downtown the “town centre”.
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