Today we continued our drive along the Stewart cassiar highway which was very beautiful. We only saw one bear today, but it was a brown bear, so that made up for it.

We stopped at jade city which isn’t a city. It’s just a single shop selling jade. Not even any food or fuel! But the had free wifi so I did my wordle and caught up with things.

We made it to the Alaska highway and a much needed fuel station. It looked weird. We pulled up to the pump and a toothless man who looked exactly like Roland from Schitts creek came running out, telling us what we had to do. He was really weird so we went around the corner and found another fuel station.

The Alaska highway was a bit of a shock after the Stewart cassiar. For the last few days we’d been driving a narrow, remote,scenic road in the wilderness. The Alaska highway is wide in comparison and seems less remOye. More traffic too but still pretty quiet.

We stopped and had a look at the rancheros falls, but they were ok. We were going to stop the night in the carpark, but a man was running his noisy generator and there were about 6 others pulled in to stay.

It was 6.30pm already but we decided to move on, knowing we had hours of daylight left. Not much further down the road we found a large field next to a river. And there was only one other person camping there. And it was a lovely outlook with mountains around us. Not sure why people would cram into a carpark when this place is just down the road.

We’re done with paid camping if we can help it. There are so many nice places to camp for free, and even though it’s still cold, we know we can handle the cold.