Williams Lake, BC

August 20,  Drove up to Barkerville this morning so I could get a magazine about the place, I forgot to pick one up before we left yesterday.  Got back to camp, hooked up, went and dumped and filled with water.  While driving back to Quesnel, we had taken a side trip to see the ghost towns of Stanley and Van Winkel, 1 1/2 mile dirt road which had come back onto the highway, we had seen signs of the town and the story that it told, I had walked up to the cemetery to see the tombstones, which some dated back to 1880 & 1873 deaths.  We then headed south on route 97 through Quesnel, stopped at WalMart to see about filling our water jugs, to no avail, went next door to another grocery store and they did have a place to fill our jugs.  Continued south to Williams Lake, saw a Ford dealer and went in for an oil change in the truck, got there about 1:30, they told us they could change it at 3:30, so we waited, we pulled out shorty after 5 pm.  We then stopped for the night at Lac La Hache Provincial Park for the night around 6:30.  We had driven 159 miles today, was a nice sunny day and then it got cloudy with 80* weather.

 August 21,  Left campground, which was a very nice one, no bugs, around 9:30, still traveling south on route 97, through the town of Clinton, yes they do have a town of that name, and outside of town of course construction, sat for about 15 minutes before continuing on our way.   We drove into the town of Cache Creek, where we got onto Canadian Highway 1, such beautiful scenery today while driving, with rolling hills, it looks like a desert really.  We stopped for the night at Gold Pan Provincial Park, we where here back in 2010 after a caravan and really liked it so we decided to stop again.  The campground is along the Thompson River with railroad tracks running across the road from it and railroad tracks on the other side of the river, with a cover for rock slides and a tunnel for it to go through, really neat to see.  We had driven only 131 miles today and the temperature at 5:30 is 88 degrees, partly cloudy.  What a beautiful night, with moon and stars shining.