The Road to Washington State

We are on our way at 9 am, 42 degrees and a blue sky. This campground in Smithers was beautiful; lots of friendly folks. We seemed to have camped in the same place as a RV Caravan many times during this trip...and here was no exception. So, familiar folks.
Heading toward Prince George, it is there that we will turn south on Canada 97 toward Washington. The scenery is rolling hills, lots of trees; logging seems to be a big industry along here.
We stopped at Wal Mart in Prince George to do some grocery shopping...but unfortunately it was not a "Super WalMart"; just a "grocery shelf", so we couldn't get any fresh produce or meat. They seem to have lots of that kind of store in Canada. When we decided to stop for the evening this is all the wildlife we could find.....
So, we warmed our chinese left-overs from last night over the campfire. It was raining outside....and after that beautiful morning we had in Smithers, too.
It was raining so hard that I'm drenched to the bone!
We decided that this was the ultimate "roughing it" since it's raining outside.

It's been two months on the road; many, many rainy days and nights. We haven't minded it...but enough is enough. We decided to pamper ourselves a little bit. BUT...this is what really happened. When we decided that we had traveled long enough today, the campground that we thought was here....wasn't. Instead, across the street was this hotel. Sure enough....not a problem and we switched gears. Why not? AND then the skies decided to open up and bless us with MORE rain...and this looks like buckets outside. Fortunate decision we made.
We traveled a bit over 300 miles today. There’s really not much more that we are interested in BC, but there are about 4 National Parks in Washington that we would like to see, besides visiting with Chris’ brother, Mike, and a cousin in Oregon. So, we'll probably drive straight through to Washington.
So, until we "connect" again....