my travels in pixels

North Cascades National Park/Forest, WA Silver Lake Campground After leaving Bella Coola we went via Williams Lake to pick up our generator that was being serviced and headed south. I wanted to photograph Mt Shuksan in the North Cascades but we also wanted to catch up with some new friends in Vancouver. Although it would have been less driving going into the US to the North Cascades and then driving over to Vancouver we were advised that crossing the borders multiple times in a short period of time would lead to suspicion that we were up to no good, so we went to Vancouver first and then crossed into the US. We made sure we didn't have any fresh food so that we didn't have to declare anything but we were pulled over anyway. We parked our rig and a guy asked us why we had been stopped. We don't know. So he went back to the woman in the booth and asked her - she was either having a bad day or needed to increase her quota of checking on people. It seems we have too many

Bella Coola, British Columbia, Canada This place is special and this trip has been planned on the time we wanted to spend in Bella Coola. We don’t actually stay in Bella Coola, but in the valley which is at the end of Highway 20 aka the Freedom Road after descending the Heckman Pass otherwise known as “the hill”. A steep, winding, narrow in parts gravel road that descends from 5000ft to the valley floor in just over 21 kms which takes about an hour to travel. There are places which are only one vehicle wide and while downhill traffic is supposed to give way to uphill traffic, they don’t! The drops are breathtaking and I was much happier when our lane was closest to the mountain side. We only had to pass one truck which happened to be in a wide section, all the other vehicles were cars. As we passed the Provincial campground at Fisheries Pool, we stopped outside and I walked in to see if there were any vacancies. As I was walking down the pot-holed dirt road overhung