Today we drove a little longer than usual, about 4 hours. We usually like to keep the drive to 3hr or less. Because stops are getting a little more sparse, and there is less to see, we are pushing a little further. Our first stop was the Bijoux Falls Provincial Park. The park is right on the highway with a large parking lot large enough for us to turn around and park with the Jeep in tow. This waterfall was very beautiful as it cascades down. The waterfall is directly accessible from the parking lot so its super easy to enjoy for everyone. There was one other car in the parking lot but we had the falls to ourselves. How cool is that?! After enjoying the falls we hopped back on the highway and continued our journey.
We arrived in Dawson Creek BC about 12:30. The population of Dawson Creek is 11,500 but has quite a bit of services including Walmart. We snagged one of the last available full hook-up, 50A sites at the Mile 0 RV Park. Once parked we headed to lunch without even setting up the coach. We ate lunch at the nearby Rockwells Bar and Grill. Definitely a locals kind of place. We ate outside in beautiful weather, but the food was fair at best. Not our favorite meal. After lunch we drove around and found quite a few better looking places to eat so our choice for lunch was premature.
We drove around Dawson Creek and stopped at the visitor center with the Mile 0 signs. Dawson Creek is the start of the Alaskan Highway. We were there with many RV’rs and tourists. Later we realized the actual Mile 0 marker was in an intersection a block or so away.
I picked up a windshield repair kit from Canada Tire. Canada Tire is kind of like Walmart used to be before the supercenters. We headed back to the coach where I spent over an hour washing just the windshield and front of the coach. The amount of bugs we accumulated over the last two days is staggering. Once really clean, I used the windshield repair kit on the two star impacts we suffered two days ago. It really worked well and made the cracks much less visible. The repair should keep the cracks from spreading. I think the windshield should be good for the long term. The repair looks as good as the professional chip repair I had done on my truck windshield a while back in Texas.