Tuesday, August 7th
Once again, we had the pleasure of packing up camp in the rain; we went to sleep with a nice lightning show above and assume the rain started shortly afterward. The benefit of a rainy morning is that it got us on the road nice and early! After a couple of hours we drove out of the rain and stopped at an overlook near Big Bar Lake to cook up some breakfast. After passing through British Columbia’s agricultural district for a couple hours, we made it off Highway 29 and onto the Trans-Canada Highway to drive through the Fraser Canyon. The Fraser Canyon is a narrow, rocky canyon cut by the Fraser River, and the two-lane road follows the path of the river while clinging to the side of the cliff.
Once through the Canyon we had one last Canadian stop in Chilliwack, by far our most successful shopping attempt of the trip. We were able to do a last-minute stop for Canadian chocolates and beer not available south of the border, as well as some other errands that needed to be run. We sped immediately from Chilliwack to Abbotsford, where we crossed the border for the last time into the Lower 48! Another easy border crossing (where we did declare our Timbits, or donut holes from Tim Horton’s), we found ourselves in Sumas, Washington.
Two hours of interstate travel later we stopped in Kirkland, Washington, to visit our friend Alison. It was great to reconnect, and we took a walk through beautiful Kirkland past the Wilde Rover, the scene of past adventures of Charla and Allison. Our destination this evening was just next door at Hanuman Thai Café, Charla’s first Thai food since leaving Thailand earlier this summer. The prices were a little higher than Bangkok street-food (though also significantly lower than prices in Talkeetna), but Charla still approved of the cuisine. Later that evening we headed into Seattle to visit Noelle, one of Chase’s friends from Talkeetna. We quickly all became friends and slept soundly that night rocked by the waves of Lake Union.
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