Good-bye

to the Northwest. We are in Dawson Creek BC, where we checked in on Sunday July 4. On the 2nd, when we were in Fort Nelson, we visited a great little museum called Fort Nelson Heritage Museum. It covered all the "normal" stuff pioneer museums have, as well as a great car collection. This collection was started by and is still maintained by a gentleman called Marl Brown. He is also the founder of the museum and the curator. I had a very enjoyable 1 hour visit with him enjoying the oral history of many of the cars. He owns 13 of them and knows the history of the rest. We also enjoyed a film on the making of the Alaska Highway containing original footage taken at the time. The next day it was off to spend the night at Pink Mountain, bear in mind it was "gay pride day". Sunday the 4th we arrived at the Mile 0 campground in Dawson Creek. This will be our last stop in BC as tomorrow we will be in Alberta. On the way to Dawson Creek, we took a very short detour and drove part of the original Alaska Highway crossing the only remaining wooden timber bridge on the highway...it's called Kiskatinaw and is 531' long and curved.. Today a visit was made to "downtown" and a viewing of the mile zero milepost as well as the various murals painted on some of the downtown buildings. Before driving down there, we walked next door to the Pioneer Museum...funny how many things don't seem that old anymore