Day 4 100 mile house , BC, Canada

Water Fall at the Camp Ground

World's longest cross country Skiis at 100 mile house

Camping at 100 mile house municiple camp ground

Lilloet Farmer's maket. There were ten puppies, all free

I am blogging from the camp ground of the town named 100 mile house. No kidding, there are many other towns named 50 mile house, 150 mile house etc etc. The names come from 1850’s the big gold rush days. The start of Gold Rush was from Lillooet ( look at the map) and the wagon trails went from there to Barkerville ( have not reached there yet). The name of the town ( i.e.) 100 mile house is the rest stop 100 miles from Lillooet.

To back up , we got an early start , like 7am ( do not ask why). The day is beautiful and we drove rest of the “Sea to sky “ highway from Whistler to Lillooet. It is the most scenic road I have seen, with 14% grade and granite cliffs, lakes and white water rivers. It really spoils you. I let Jagdish drive on this section J

As I mentioned above, Lillooet is the beginning of the gold rush trail and at one point it was the biggest town north of San Francisco and west of Chicago. Now, it is a historic town of 2500 people and a cute railway station. We were planning to take the train ride for two hours but the train was very late so we decided to move on L

Now we are driving on highway 97, it is totally boring compared to the highway 99 (sea to sky) but has interesting stuff along the way. It reminds me of the gold rush towns of California. Not much tourists here, and quite a few natives , (the first nation people) that’s what they call the original native people here. I guess it is better than Indians or Red Indians ….

The campground is right by the water fall and is very nice. It is close to the town and there is this 12 year old kid who is riding his mountain bike and keeps coming by. First, he asked for some water from us then to tell us , “ do not leave food outside” the bears come here and then he just came by to show off his new bike tires. He says he lives in the town. Hope he means well and is just a kid hanging out.

It is a nice and warm day and we are now going to cook the dinner. We will let you know as to how our first night of camping turned out to be.

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