Last year when we were in Hyder we stopped at Caroline’s Boundry Gifts saw a cute t-shirt but I’m not a kid.  We got talking she said come back next year and I will have one for you.  I think she thought they won’t be back. Did we surprise her.  She still only had the shirt in a child’s large (I don’t remember the last time I saw that size).  I whined and tried to bargain to see what could be done.  I told her what if I brought in a shirt would she do it.  She thought about it and said she had some kids shirts she had to screen she’d be doing them on Sunday so if I helped she would screen mine for free.  I’m easy.  More on that in another post.

We did lunch at the only sit down normal restaurant in Stewart, then of course on to a little shopping but the place was closed for lunch.  I did get a few headbands at the farmers market hair is growing.

I am trying to work on using manual focus on the camera and not to get to jittery so we head off to see some glaciers and waterfalls on Hwy 37A.  I took some of the same pictures as I  did last year only we were two weeks earlier this year.  Being two weeks early makes a big difference, stronger waterfalls, more bears, and yes more mosquitos.  I promise I will post side by side pictures of the glaciers so you can see the changes in a year.

We stopped back out at the Fish Creek where the bear viewing is I got a few pictures of bears and a small taste of combat phototaking.  Headed home because I’m getting a shirt tomorrow Sunday at 7am

Hyder is a strange little town cute, quirky, and quaint.  This includes the food.  Everyone speaks highly of the Bus, we missed this last year.  Our first night in town we drive over to get some fresh seafood.  Headed over to see if she was opened not until 4pm so went to explore Stewart with passports in hand. 

Fun fact here Hyder is in the US no border crossing Stewart is in Canada border crossing.  We decided to stay in Hyder so we didn’t have to keep crossing the border numerous times a day.  There’s a little bakery in Stewart that has a sausage breakfast roll that was like the ones we had in Amsterdam, so we picked some up for breakfast and had to get a sweet of course.  We were then able to hook up to the internet check mail and phone messages, because Stewart is the only place with cell service on 37a or 37.

We head back to the bus about 5pm already a crowd, that’s cool I can talk with people.  Order our food wait an hour get it delivered best grilled halibut ever well worth the wait. https://cutterlight.com/2012/01/21/the-bus-in-hyder-the-best-fish-chips-anywhere/ 

I learned during the wait that Bella Coola will be an awesome drive and the drive done to Vancouver will be curvy but the road is completely paved.  The other thing is bears do still come into town proof from the shattered door window of the bus. 

More to come about the week in Hyder

One in a millon.  Picture this miss social butterfly who thinks anyone from Wisconsin is someone I might know or at least a Packer fan. (So I have to talk to them).  

Let me set the stage. After doing our twofer drive day get into Hyder Alaska https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyder,_Alaska one day early, do dinner at the bus, (story to follow) strike out at bear viewing, head back to Camp Run-a-Muck.  I go to pay the camp fee see a truck from Wisconsin must go talk. 

I ask basic question where you from, answer a small town west of Green Bay Waupaca. I start asking if the foundry is still operating, if the Sears Catalog Store is still down town.  They ask if I had lived there I answer yes 1976 till about 1980.  We talk about people we know, agree that Wisconsin has the best cheese curds and fish frys.  To make a long story short, she was the nurse who took care of me when I had my tonsils out and her husband worked as a counselor at the high school and remembered my brother Dave (AKA froggy) when he was part of the track team head shaving.  

Crazy and amazing the people you meet in a random place on a trip or vacation.  This lends a whole new meaning to small world.

What’s a twofer you ask? Doing two days of driving into one we will do anything to get out of boondocking.  We did spend one night along side the river on the Casier.  So we did not give it up completely.  The road was in good condition surprised though at the amount of truck traffic.  

We left Whitehorse in the Yukon on the morning of the third, the stop we were going to make was just to close so we drove on.  The second stop, which would have been where we would of stayed the second night we got there to early.  So we drove on.  After seeing semi wild horse at a brake check area we decided at the bottom of the hill near the rest area by the edge of Eddintenajon Lake we would stop.  On the way down the hill we saw a grizzly bear couldn’t get a picture because he was quicker then me. 

 Last year we saw no animals on the road which is why a twofer was perfect for this road.    Our stop left  us with only 180 miles to travel on the 4th. We also were able to pull in to Camp Run-a-Muck early by a whole day.  I needed a bear fix by now SO PERFECT a place for it also.