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Clearwater Country Inn and RV Park, British Columbia, Canada. Odometer – 7290

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We left Japser today heading west towards Vancouver. It will take us 4 days. There are interesting things to do along the way. Today we drove over 300km to Clearwater, a tiny town that is gateway to a huge provincial park called Wells-Gray.

Our first stop this morning was in Jasper, to fill up on some groceries, especially water, which came down to the last 3 bottles. We went to a different supermarket than on the first day, and it was actually not too bad. We even got a baguette. After Paola made a phone call we headed out of town.

We left Jasper and immediately entered Robson Provincial Park, a huge park whose central attraction is Mount Robson, dwarfing all neighboring peaks at almost 4000m. The passage to Robson from Jasper is also a switch from Alberta to British Columbia and a change of one hour back to Pacific Standard Time (Just like San Francisco). We stopped for lunch at the visitor center and ate outside at a picnic table with a great view of the mountain. Most of it anyway. The peak is usually covered with clouds. We ate alphabet pasta that Ron chose at the supermarket a few days ago.

We drove another 10km to check out Rearguard falls, 500 meters from the road. They were nice, not spectacular. From there we had about 200km of driving through mostly forest, with very few towns along the way. Nice views. Towards the end of our drive today we saw a black bear along the road. It always happens to us when we are driving too fast to stop and there is nowhere to turn around for miles ahead. And in places we drive slow, the most we see is a ground squirrel…

We got to the campground in the afternoon and were happy to get a site that was shaded by a lot of trees. We are at a relatively low altitude, inland, which means hot weather. We played outside with the kids until suppertime and then ate outside on our (very) lopsided picnic table.

It is great to see the children developing and growing, although we don’t notice it on a day to day basis. Ron has grown taller in the 2 months we are on the road. Most of the pants that were a bit too long for him back in Foster City now fit him beautifully. Shir has come a long way in verbal communication in the last 2 weeks. Her diction has improved and she can pronounce the letter R, more or less. Orr is talking in 2 word sentences – “more cottage”, “hand hurt”.

Both Shir and Orr are developing bilingual capabilities, differentiating between what words to say when speaking with Paola, and what with me. I didn’t notice what they speak with Ron. Ron usually talks to the girls in English, especially when playing. We just add water food and love, they do all the rest…

Tomorrow we will visit Wells-Gray Park. Good Night,

-Hemi

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