Day 9, Rest Stop

We left Mile 0 RV Park about 9:30pm headed for Fort St John to fuel up.  We had planned on getting diesel at the Flying J but we couldn’t find it.  Gary and I went to different stations and I thought I would never get my MH fueled.  I first went to what I guess was a fueling stop for truckers cause I couldn’t get any of my cards to work.  I went to the store next to it that I thought was part of it and was told they had nothing to do with that area.  So I moved over to their pumps and ended up having to take my card into them and had them pre-charge $175.  I was able to put the whole $175 in without filling the tank but I just stopped since I didn’t want to start that process over again.  I got 45.88 gallons for my $175 so that would be $3.81 per gallon.  I think I needed another 10 gallons or less to fill the tank but will have to wait till the next fill up to figure the mileage.

We had a lot of good road and one really bad spot.  Gary was leading and didn’t see an area of frost heaves quick enough.  A sign said to slow down to 20 mph and he said he was probably doing 60mph.  He thought the front wheels on the truck may have come off the ground.  He yelled at us on the CB and I got slowed down in time.

We stopped at a park at Charlie Lake and had lunch.  Charlie Lake is the site of a very bad accident in 1942.  The army was attempting to float some heavy equipment on the lake on May 14 1942.  They were out on the lake when the barge sunk drowning 12 of the 17 men on the barge.  Five soldiers were saved by a trapper that saw the accident.  Canada has built a monument and lists the names of the 12 that died and the five that were saved.  The lake was so calm today it is hard to understand how it happened, but the story is that there were 2 to 3 foot waves that day.

We stopped and had supper at a Boston Pizza in Fort Nelson.  I got an eight inch pizza and Twila got a vegetable Lasagna and we shared them.  Real good.  We drove on another 20 miles to a rest stop on the side of the road and will spend the night here.