Today we traveled 381 miles from Dease Lake to Telkwa, BC. We had a beautiful day for traveling again and much better roads. We still ran into dusty gravel roads, and I had a clean-up in Tramper to do when we landed at the campground, but it is getting a little easier each night.

I’m really looking forward to the evening I can say I didn’t have to clean up dirt in Tramper after a travel day. We didn’t have this problem until the Dempster Highway, and we can’t even begin to figure out where the dirt is coming in until we are home more than likely.

We are thinking of getting a campground for a couple of nights somewhere when we are back in the U.S., opening up the back door, and removing everything so we can do a deeper clean in the back. Maybe that will also yield some answers.

Some of the lakes set against the mountains are so beautiful in British Columbia. We haven’t been stopping for pictures, but this one from the truck as we drove by didn’t turn out too badly! I love the reflection.

At one of our earlier stops in the day, Mike pulled a bunch of rocks out of the front tires. We are running 12-ply tires to better handle the bad roads. When you can feel the rocks in the tires as you are driving down the road, it’s a good idea to remove them before the road beats them further into the tire. What we’re trying to do is prevent the rocks from putting holes in the tires.

At one of our later stops (Bell 2 Lodge), we ran up on the greatest little restaurant. We had such a great lunch, a fruit smoothie (that was a big treat), and got some food to eat tonight for dinner as well. Both meals were so good!

The campground has WiFi, but WiFi never works well in Tramper. We do have cell signal at least, so that’s a plus. After days of neither, we’ll take it.

After we ate, I took a little walk. The Buckley River runs right alongside the campground, so I went down to see what I could find. I forgot to bring bear spray, so I wasn’t entirely comfortable; nor did I go very far. But it felt good to get out and about for a little while.

We showered the dust off and settled in to get a good night’s sleep. After weeks of midnight sun, we are back to where it actually gets dark at night again.