stubsadventures

The title really tells most of the story. It took us 41 hours to drive from Tofino to Drumheller. You may or may not be amazed at all the little things we found to stop at between here and there. Canada really is filled with little towns in the most obscure locations with the most amazing stories to tell. What a trip.

We knew we wanted to drive along highway 3 that follows the southern most part of BC and skirts the American border most of the way. The drive through the mountain passes and valley farm lands was beautiful. Before stopping for some sleep in EC Manning Provincial Park, we had a close encounter with a bear. We first pulled over and were the only ones around. We watched him for about fifteen minutes before he started to cross the street coming straight towards my truck. I was hanging out the back window snapping pictures. On his way across the street, another vehicle pulled up scaring him back. Eventually he got up the courage and did go across to the other side of the street and came around the side of my truck, almost hiding himself from the other traffic. I was hanging out the window about 2.5 feet away just snapping pictures. You could hear him breathe in and out of his snout and every once in a while he would look up into my eyes. It was a once in a life time experience. Except now it’s happened to me twice, and the other time was a polar bear in the arctic.

After stopping for the night, we hadn’t been more than 2 hours into the drive when I found someplace I had to stop. Hedley, BC is one of the cutest places you have ever found. The old mining structures up high on the hill were what first caught my eye but I couldn’t resist the “heritage downtown” sign. After taking some pictures, we stopped for some breakfast (see pictures of red eggs), then explored the little town.

After that we happened upon a town called Midway. Cleverly named because it is at the halfway point between the BC border. Also, we passed through the tiny town of Greenwood, BC. Driving into the town I recognized a stack I had seen while researching BC ghost towns years ago. After a bit of navigating, we got as close as we were going to get and I bush whacked to get to the remaining structure to snap a few pics.

Overall, amazing trip to the west coast, as always. Damn I love this country we live in.

Stubs.