Kamloops to Horse Fly Lake... Wed 17 Jul

Wednesday morning as we where about to hook up the car to the MH at Barker's it started to pour rain as it did most of the night. Since we were not in a hurry we just had another cup of coffee and finally the had  stopped. 

We left Kamloops heading for  Horse fly to see another military friend ( Bob Donker ) who we had not seen in several years mainly because he lives in a place that is also in the middle of nowhere. 

The trip took us about 6 hours even thought the GPS said 4 hours. The GPS doesn't take into account that we need a pit stop, a fuel stop, a lunch break and a snooze stop. It was an interesting drive as the towns/cities had odd names such a Cache Creek, 70 Mile House, 93 Mile ( they left off the House ) , 100 Mile House, 150 Mile House. Incidentally the distance between 100 and 150 Mile House is not 50 miles. But maybe it was in horse and buggy days. 

After leaving hwy 93 just north of 150 Mile House we travel another 56 km to our friends house in the town of Horse Fly. The town doesn't have much, just a general store with a  liquor dept, post office, school and a cafe ( call ahead to see if is open ). The area is mainly cottages and fishing but I did see a few small cattle farms.

When Bob built his house on the 7 1/2 arces of bush land he had the foresight to included an RV parking space complete with a full RV hookup ( PWS ) and satellite TV. Bob and his wife Elanor ( she passed away 3 years ago ) where avid RVers and they expected their many RV friends to visit hence the reason for the RV hookup.

We spent the rest of the afternoon swapping stories about family and friends and keeping our throats wet with Bob's beer.  Carroll had 3 steaks in the MH so we offer to Bar-B-Q the steaks for supper and Bob supplied the potatoes etc. After supper we again talk about our military buddies. Bob goes to Williams Lake ( 56 KM one way on a paved road but not your normal hwy ) every Thursday with a friend to run errands such as doctor and dental appointments and to do the shopping. Since they leave at 8 AM we called it a night fairly early so Bob could be ready when his friend arrives to pick him up in the morning.  Cheers