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September 19, 2009
Day Two
Tuesday Sept 15, 2009
We awoke to a beautiful morning in Peuce Coupe with a frosty nip in the air but some warm rays of sun in the sky. As mentioned earlier, we had an appointment in Dawson Creek so we packed up camp and hit the road. By a great stroke of luck, we arrived early and discovered that the Tim Hortons in town was right across from the Toyota dealership. A couple of double-doubles later and we pulled up to Peace Country Toyota. We dropped off the truck and hopped in the courtesy van for a trip to downtown Dawson Creek.
The driver, Ron, gave us a quick tour of downtown, including the Zero Mile Post of the Alaska Highway, and then dropped us off at Cafe Europa. This was a nice little place that made a heavenly cappuccino and a nice grilled ham and swiss croissant. So far, it was a great start to the day. Alas, that was about as long as it lasted. We spent the next 2.5h trying to find someone accreditable to witness a statutory declaration. The copshop was busy, city hall didn't do it, the provincial building pointed us to the sheriff's office where nobody was home. Two law offices were too busy at the time and luckily the third time was the charm...as was a $30 fee for the service. The next 45 minutes was spent at Canada Post trying to send documents and a t-shirt to Australia. A pretty brutal morning spent in Dawson Creek.
Things did perk up a little when we decided to celebrate our accomplishments with a beer. The Alaska Hotel wasn't open yet but we finally found the 'local' that was - Silver's. Located in the Silverado Inn, it was a dark, pool hall/nightclub kinda place. Not much to look at but full of character and it was Toonie Tuesday at the time. Who can argue with $2 for a glass of draught? Not me, even if it was Canadian.
After finishing a few beers we called Ron up and headed back to the dealership. Now, if you'll recall from some previous posts, I'd had the idea to ask the guys at Toyota to try and finish up the install of the dash switch for the ARB compressor that I'd mounted. Bad idea. Turns out it took 1.4h for the guy to do it. 1.4h at the current rate for dealership work of....(drumroll please)...$120/h. Yeah.....not happy. It was done, which was nice, but at that cost, I'd have been willing to buy a multimeter and put in several hours of my own time and I think I woulda come out ahead. The truck was in for a major service which also turned out to be a kick in the pants as prices quoted did not involve supplies or that nasty tax rate that is so much higher in BC than AB. Needless to say, I earned a lot of airmiles with the plastic that morning.
The afternoon was spent driving and we decided to push all the way to Fort Nelson to visit one of Nat's co-workers. We shared in some beer, pizza and Call of Duty 4 before taking a suggestion and camping at a trailhead in town. Anything is better than an RV park. Not to slight all of them, just most of them don't have a great atmosphere for camping. Oh yeah, another night of setting up camp with headlamps.
End of day two
Posted by Dr.Unk at September 19, 2009 1:09 AM
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