| The town of McBride does NOT have a car wash
- bad news for RVers. But there were lots of hiking trails, fishing, and
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| Beaverview RV Park was a nice looking campground,
but did not have a lot of sites. It had a nicely landscaped office, pull-through
grassy sites, water and electric hook-ups, no sewers, no cable, tent sites
with fire pits, free Wi-Fi, clean washrooms, free hot showers, free sani-dump,
and laundromat, plus firewood and horseshoes. Limited TV stations - 8
actually but not ABC. No washing of vehicles. |
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Below: The new yard of
the two RV Gypsies - August 23, 2009 |
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An art walk through the city
of McBride exhibited examples of the fantastic artwork created by artisans
from the Whistle Stop Gallery via painted fire hydrants. |
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Below: The sidewalks were
blue with hockey players on them |
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Below: A painting on a building in
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Below: Street signs had trains on them
too |
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| There are 7 river systems flowing in the BC
portion of the Rocky Mountain Trench. The only river completely in BC is
the largest one, the Fraser River. It flows from its source high in the
mountains about 50 km from the Yellowhead Highway near Lucerne, then westerly
to the trench of Tete Juane, then northwesterly through the beautiful Robson
Valley to Prince George and its confluence with the Nechako River. Then
it travels in a southwesterly direction through the Fraser Canyon. At Hope,
it turns and flows west to Vancouver and the Pacific Ocean. The Fraser River
was a major transportation route when the Overlanders came in search of
the gold fields in 1862. |
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| Below: The two
RV Gypsies left McBride the next day and of course, Karen Duquette took
photos through the closed window of the moving RV. (The window was NOT
made to open) |
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| Below: After driving
about 30 miles, the two RV Gypsies heard a very LOUD BANG, so they drove
slowly and carefully until they could find a rest area big enough for their
RV to fit in. Then they stopped to investigate the problem. One of the inner
tires blew. While Lee Duquette was pumping air into the tire, Karen Duquette
took a walk around the area and photographed a beautiful river. |
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| Below: Lee Duquette
determined that the tire needed to be replaced, so the two RV Gypsies slowly
drove back to McBride. On the way back to McBride, a deer crossed the road
in front of their RV. |
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| Below; The Goodyear
Garage in McBride was closed, and the only place that could fix the tire
could not schedule the repair until the next day, so the two RV Gypsies
returned to the campground. AWO had space to herself. |
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| Below; In the morning, AWO was put in for repair,
and the two RV Gypsies decided to go to Beaver Falls in their toad. |
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| Below: Karen Duquette
was looking left and photographing the above sign. Lee Duquette was looking
left too, even though he was driving the toad. Then suddenly Lee hit the
brakes. The road had ended and there was a drop down into the river. Good
thing Lee looked forward in time and had good reflexes. It would not have
been nice if they had driven into the river. All's well that end's well! |
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Below: All is well, so
the two RV Gypsies walked down the path to Beaver Falls. |
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Beaver Falls is small,
but still a strong, powerful, beautiful waterfall. |
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| Below: After a short time, it
was time to leave because Lee Duquette was not feeling very well, and the
hike was a strain on him. |
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