Day 9! Take Two or Three or whatever!

We started out about 8:30 this morning after breakfast at the hotel we stayed in. We have been lucky so far with the places we have stayed. Almost all have had free breakfast, microwave, fridge and coffee pots in the rooms. We have even stayed in a few with pools and or hot tubs.

When we went out to get in the truck this morning there was a few more inches of snow on the ground. We were blessed though with gorgeous weather for the day. As we were driving out of Fort St. John we were passed by an ambulance and 3 police cars. The third police car was a little behind the others and we saw it turn off onto another road, so we didn’t think much of what we saw, until about 2 hours later. Traffic came to a standstill. We sat for over an hour before we were able to get going again. There was a wreck with a small Toyota and an 18 wheeler. This is where the ambulance and two police cars were going. The wreck happened around 8:30 this morning and the Toyota had to be cut all apart in order to get the driver out. The driver was then air lifted to a hospital, seeing as how we were a good two hour drive from the closest town. As you can see by the pics of the road, they were not in excellent condition. So anyway, on we finally went about 11:30. We arrived in Fort Nelson about 2:30 and decided it was too early to stop since the weather was so nice (super cold but nice).

We kept driving thinking we would stop in the little town of Muncho Lake, which was so small we drove right passed it. It was about 150 miles northwest of Fort Nelson. We ended up at the Northern Rockies Lodge located on Muncho Lake. It was a very nice place to stay and the décor was great, but they knew they had the market so they charged out the wazoo. The price for the room wasn’t too bad at $139 +tax Canadian money which is about $110 American. However, they don’t provide the breakfast or wireless Internet. They do have a restaurant here, but the prices for dinners were outrageous so we pulled out a couple of the MRE’s we packed and ate those for dinner. We did decide to have breakfast here, but we had to order that before 9:00 this evening and pre-pay in order to guarantee that we would have it, it was $13.25 per person. They also had a computer for public use but they charged $5.00 for the first 10 minutes and $.25 each additional minute. The lady put me on the computer and I used it just long enough to upload the other blogspot and check our e-mails and facebook. When I went back to the desk to let her know I was finished, she must have taken pity on me and didn’t charge me. They did offer a $.10 discount for their gas for people staying here; therefore it was only $1.49 per LITER!!! Up until this, the highest we have paid was $1.04 per liter and that was back in Fort Nelson. The going rate elsewhere in B.C. is $.99 per liter.

Now for the good part. Here is a spattering of pictures from the drive here. Enjoy!

This is a lake we drove over on a bridge. View from highest elevation on Alaskan Highway.

Liard River

Muncho Lake

That is some DEEP snow!