This morning, we plotted out our plan of attack for heading back into the U.S. Our goal for the return portion of the trip is to travel until we feel we need to stop each day, enjoy the beauty as we go, and connect with some friends and family along the way as we hit the states and head homeward

So I guess the theme for this final leg of the trip is Friends and Family (Homeward Bound).

We had a decent day weather-wise for travel for the most part with perhaps an hour of rain. The roads continue to improve, with the Cassiar Highway being paved for a good portion. There are still many frost heaves and areas of gravel and dust, but overall, there is a lot of improvement.

I have to be honest — I am really over the dirt and dust. Not only do we still have the leftover COVID cough, but we both feel as though our sinuses, eyes, and throats have ingested more than any sinuses, eyes, and throats should. Ugh. I am sure that isn’t helping us very much.

One thing I seriously hope I can always remember — the roads in America are so good. Whenever I forget that, I will try to think of the roads we have traveled in Canada and Alaska!

One of our highlights today was our stop in Jade City! With a granddaughter whose name is Jade, it was a must.

There wasn’t much to do there other than stop and get some pictures, but it was special for us nonetheless. They had a gift shop with lots of items made from jade. I fell in love with a bear that had a fish in its mouth. For $25,000, though, I decided to leave it with them! LOL.

From Wikipedia: Jade City is a settlement in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, near the Yukon, located on Highway 37, west of Good Hope Lake and close to Cassiar, in the Cassiar Highlands. The region around Jade City is rich with serpentinite (a jade precursor),[1] greenstone (jade look-a-likes),[2] and Nephrite jade. Jade City is by road about 19 hours north of Greater Vancouver, and 1 hour south of the Yukon border.[3] As of 2015, it had a population of about 30 people.[3] About 90% of the world’s jade comes from the Cassiar Mountains in Jade City.

We traveled on to Dease Lake, BC. The first campground we tried wasn’t going to work for us, but we went a little further down the road to Brown Bear RV Park. It was perfect for one night, so that’s where we stayed.

They had three beautiful vintage vehicles on display by the office. I love the truck!

We drove 431 miles today. There wasn’t as much dirt to clean up in Tramper, but there was still some. Thankfully, we are still covering the bedding with a plastic sheet, so nothing has to be done

We were more than happy to be piling in the bed tonight.