North for Alaska: Day Two - Bellingham WA to Clinton BC 220 Miles

Today we crossed into Canada. Taking fresh fruit over the border does not work! Other than having to dispose of a few apples and peaches, nothing went wrong. Then we headed to Vancouver BC to Splashdown waterpark where we played for several hours. The park was 30 years old, and it did not look as if they had done very much maintenance in all the years it was in existence. Aside from deteriorating facilities, we enjoyed our stay, but were ready to hit the road when the park closed.

After several hours of driving we stopped in the town of Hope – pop. 6,500. We were looking for gluten free bread and a tiny Safeway type store had it! Everybody was quite amused at our rabbit on a leash. Willow got several curious stares.

I took lots of pictures on our drive and the scenery is starting to look a bit like Alaska. The change from the in currencies has been a little entertaining as all the food appears to costs 20% more. Gotta keep reminding myself that not everything is as expensive as it looks:) Gas is also priced by the liter rather than the gallon and the distance from place to place is in kilometers rather than miles. It feels so fulfilling to go 110 kph on the highway!

After stopping in Hope, we headed on to our destination for the night in Clinton BC. On our way we flipped the odometer on our Yukon from 99,000 to 100,000 miles! We also saw several old church buildings that looked pretty neat. Once reaching our hotel (once again, trip went smoothly and quite uneventful) I tried to connect to the internet, but it was just not happening. Thus, I was not able to post anything on our trip and you all had to wait for an update.