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13. Day

Quesnel – Barkerville – anywhere in nowhere (Puntzilake)

Getting up wasn’t too hard this morning, as it is getting warmer from day to day! Today’s goal was to visit Barkerville and then drive in direction Bella Coola.

When we arrived in Barkerville it was very beautiful weather and full of snow. So we enjoyed this little historic village and took a lot of pictures. In summer time there would have been cowboys and cowgirls who would have shown you how they lived in their time.

Later we were driving in direction of Bella Coola, but as it was getting late we thought we would find a camping not so far away from Williams Lake away. So we drove to Alexis Creek and further but there wasn’t a camping that was open. After a few more kilometres we saw a sign pointing to Puntzilake and showing that there is a camping ground. So we took that way…. Ou damn this was not paved but gravel. The whole RV was like a shaker. We had to drive this path for 8 kilometers and when we finally go to the camping…. Guess what… it was closed. So we just parked in front of the camping and stayed there for the night.

This evening was really funny we played ‘Stadt Land Fluss’. I don’t know the word in English but it is a game where everyone has a sheet of paper and topics and then someone says the alphabet and the other person has to say stop and then the challenge is to find words for these topics as past as possible.

=)

Mottos of the day (for sure from the ‘Stadt Land Fluss’ game…

-“Porge….”

-“My river is Judas!” “Is there a river called Judas?” “ Yes sure, that’s the one in which Jesus was baptised!” “Öhm, that’s not Judas but Jordan!” ;)

- “A…… oh no I got lost! I just thought after C comes O!” haaha

14. Day

Puntzilake – Bella Coola – Hagensborg

How slow do you have to drive that you need 30 minutes for 8 kilometres? :P

This is what we did because we didn’t want to break the RV! :P

We thought that’s it with none paved path but we were mistaken. Some kilometres later we found ourselves on a sand-gravel way which we had to take in order to get to Bella Coola, this was the only way. So we drove through along this way and reach the National Park Tweedsmuir! You should have seen that road, oh my god it was soooo narrow and steep – was a real adventures to get to the bottom of that mountain. But when we drove further it was sooooo scenic! It looked like in a cowboy movie the countryside was just stunning.

In Bella Coola we have been visiting the harbour and it was awesome. We knew that there was a ferry to get to Port Hardy on Vancouver Island, and as Mario and I were a little worried about the RV we thought about changing our route and take the ferry instead of driving this gravel way again. Therefore I asked the guy at the harbour if he had information about the schedule and he just told me that the ferry should run since the end of March but it didn’t come to Bella Coola so far. So he didn’t know if there would come a ferry or not but it should. So there was no other possibility than take our beloved gravel way back to Williams Lake.

Once more the people were really nice, oh I almost forget to tell you that all the people who saw us waved us and greeted friendly. =)

Later on we drove back to Hagensborg to find a place to stay for the night. We had to get fuel and asked the guys there for a camping, and they told us we should try the one right on the other side of the street.

We went there and asked the lady we met, she told us that the owners of the camping are in Norway right now and they just arrived yesterday to sit the house. They knew each other just one week and got best friends, so the owner trusted his new friends with his house and the camping ground. But anyways we could stay there for the night and it was great!

The weather was really beautiful and warm so we felt like little children on the first day in spring! =)

The campground was huge and it was right next to a river! :P The best thing was we had a fire place where we mad a campfire and cooked some chocolate-bananas! =)

Motto…

“Freedom road – it was a-a-a-a-a-a-aw-w-e-e-ee-so-o-o-o-me!”