5/14/08 We got as far as Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. It was raining, 49 degrees and grey……… We decided it might not be worth it to drive the rest of the way up this island if the weather was going to be so nasty. We found that we could catch a BC Ferry across Georgia Strait to Vancouver, British Columbia. We were so amazed at the size of that ferry and how many large trucks, not to mention probably over 100 cars got on that ferry. We had a two hour ride on the ferry. The ferries are very comfortable and we enjoyed the ride. When we got to British Columbia (mainland) we set the GPS for Abbotsford, heading toward the western route of our trip to Prince George, and Prince Rupert. We hit the worst construction and traffic……. Thought we were back in the states! It really slowed us down, so we didn’t make it as far as we thought we would……… spending the night in a rest stop near Abbotsford. Tomorrow promises to be better weather.
When we stop in a rest stop, or WalMart parking lot, we usually can get a couple of TV channels. Funny, here in Abbotsford, we can get one channel, which seems to be a cartoon channel! We enjoy reading, doing crossword puzzles, and I usually can download my pictures from the camera to the computer. It is drizzly, and we are learning to tell the temperature in Celcius: currently 13.5 celcius. Also, we have had to use the calculator a few times with the conversion to metric. We learned while buying deli sliced turkey sliced that 450 grams is about a pound.
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