Return to Calgary

We left the Bell­town Inn in Seat­tle at about 7:30am and at the rec­om­men­da­tion of the front desk staff went down the street to a lit­tle cafe for some cof­fee and a break­fast to hit the road with.

The map below explains every­thing.  The weather had got­ten sig­nif­i­cantly worse in the 2 days we had been in Seat­tle.  Before there was dry ground, clear roads and bright sun­shine.  Now this had all be replaced with the des­o­late snow that we had thought we had left behind (although to be fair we haven’t seen much this year). Sno­qualmie Pass was worse than before and we saw numer­ous vehi­cles (small cars in fact) putting on chains.  Again we drove it line nor­mal sane peo­ple and had no problems.

The Canada boarder cross­ing at East­port / Kings­gate (just north of Bon­ers Ferry or south of Fer­nie) is under con­struc­tion dn we went sin­gle file thought the maze of ATCO trailers.

The rest of the drive from about 1 hour before Fer­nie until high­way 2 was mostly a white­out bliz­zard that involved us fol­low­ing snow­plows at about 65 KM/h.

All together it took us 13 hours to get home and see our cats who were very excited to see us and got show­ered with pet­ting and love.

Say­ing we slept well would be an understatement!