We were up at 5.30am to make sure we made it to the muffler shop by 8am.

It was a straight forward fix and replacing the muffler cost $300. They also noticed a suspension strut was loose and flapping about, so they fixed that too.

The owner was really nice and he recommended driving 8 hours to prince rupert and catchin a 17 hour ferry to Vancouver island. It sounded like a great trip through some of the inside passage, what people pay thousands to see. But it would have meant backtracking 5 hours through an area we’d already done earlier. And we would have been back almost to Alaska!

We went to a laundromat to do our laundry and they had super fast wifi so I was able to upload a video. We had decided to backtrack and catch the ferry. Mike has filled in all the booking details for Thursday and was about to pay when I changed my mind. I don’t know what it was but I decided I didn’t want to backtrack.

So we took the boring option and headed south towards Vancouver. We’re going to meet up with a YouTuber we follow there, so that should be interesting. He said we can camp outside his house, which is conveniently near the ferry to Vancouver island (the two hour ferry, not the 17 hour one.)

We stopped at around 5pm at a provincial park on the shade. We ate, played cards, and went to bed.