Day 13: to Spokane, WA

Quesnel, BC to Spokane, WA 602 miles

Sixty miles from Spokane, not exactly what you picture when you think Washington.

Northern Washington heading to Spokane. Not what we expected it to look like.

America . . .

Little known facts: our border agent (seen above) was from Killeen, Texas.  (Last year crossing back into Montana our agent was from Uvalde.)

Day 12: to Quesnel, BC

Hyder to Quesnel, BC

Once you leave Hyder everyone begins to drop subtle comments like: "you know, we could be home in four days", followed by light laughter; then everyone gets real quiet, and in the awkward silence its decided, the sight-seeing portion of this trip is over. It has officially become get home by any means necessary and as fast as possible.

We tried to get to Williams lake in British Columbia tonight but both of db's headlights have gone out (along with whitley's main lamp). So we stopped in Quesnel at dark. On to Spokane tomorrow to the BMW shop for new bulbs.

Aug29-1-bear glacier

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZzGIzEY5nc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Bear glacier coming into Hyder.

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View from the grandview inn.
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