July 29, Vanderhoof to Lac La Hache, BC, 243 miles

We could not find a tour of a saw mill plant anywhere! We tried plants in several cities along the way but they are all full for several days or we had to make arrangements several days in advance. All of the plants were extremely busy and had enormous piles of trees stacked up waiting to be processed. I think it would have been a fascinating tour but not this time I guess. We stopped in Quesnel, BC, left the RV at Wal-Mart, and drove the Jeep over to Barkersville, a restored gold rush town about 50 miles out of our way. It is also a National Historic Site of Canada but after getting there we decided not to go through the town. We looked at all the information and pictures and thought we had seen enough. It appeared to be very well done, similar to Living History Farms, but we drove back to the RV. The parking lot at Wal-Mart was full of campers by the time we got there but it was only about 4:00 so we drove on to Lac La Hache, BC to a park on the Lake. It’s a very nice park on a beautifu lake but not easy to get in to like the book said. This weekend is a Canadian Holiday so the park is full and we got the last spot.