British Columbia - "Still Married"

Well, we will explain the title a little later.

After a quiet night at a beautiful campsite, we hitched up the trailer and drove back down the Sea to Sky Highway under grey skies and some rain.  We took a picture of Stawamus Chief heading south – not a great picture, but it shows the three peaks.  As we mentioned in a previous blog, Bill climbed the second peak.

 

Barbara suggested going to Lighthouse Park, a park right near the mouth of Howe Sound.  It sounded like a nice place to visit and it was.  But the travel books did not mention the very steep, curvy roads one needed to drive to get there.  I mean REALLY steep.  They also did not mention the one lane road into the place and the limited parking.  We were probably fortunate that it was rainy and overcast, as not only did we find parking with the trailer, we were able to leave without asking anyone to move their car. We donned our raingear and enjoyed a hike in the park.

Another challenging drive heading out of the park, negotiated Vancouver traffic, and then we realized we were approaching the same toll bridge we traversed a few days earlier (See Oh Canada).  To avoid the complication of paying the toll, Bill took the exit before the toll, found a spot to pull over, and found a way over the river without a toll.

Then after all that, we arrive at the campsite and find that it is an awkward angle to back into and there are lots of vehicles to negotiate.  John and Jackie at the next campsite looked skeptically at the situation, but Bill did a great job backing the trailer into the site.  After watching Barbara give directions and Bill drive forward and back to manipulate the trailer, John asked, “Still married?”  We smiled, “Of course.”