September 6th

B - reporting

After breakfasting (Cheerios!) in the hotel, we set out to buy winter clothes. Grand Prairie seems like a v nice town, with a lively main street and also lots of shops in the malls, unlike some of the towns we've passed through which seem, sadly, to have been killed by Walmart.

We then carried on north, through more grain fields and then mixed pine and deciduous forest, the trees turning golden yellow. The sunlight up here takes a bit of getting used to, for 'southern' brains. The sun's angle is a lot lower, so though the time is barely noon, the angle of the sun seems completely wrong, as if it's about 5pm.**

We arrived at Mile 0 of the Alaska Highway - Dawson Creek - at lunchtime. Dawson Creek is an attractive little town, today full of sunshine and blue sky. We had a coffee and updated our insurance as we are now back in BC, and had a wonder round the town.

G was not feeling v well, so we decided to stop early and so found a nice motel in Fort St John, a small but very pleasant town I walked around before buying some groceries and beer.

*because we are so good at planning ahead we are buying out thermals the day we head north

**I am, however, easily confused. I kept thinking it was beer o'clock already.

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