Last weekend saw our family on yet another road trip for a brief holiday to the Lake country region near Vernon. Setting our alarm for a horrific 5 a.m., we dragged our sleepy behinds out of bed and tumbled into the minivan for the first leg of our road trip. Travelling around the wildfires, we went east towards McBride to head south eventually through Clearwater.
From Prince George to McBride, it only took us approximately 18 hours in the car so it was a good trip.
Every other direction out of Prince George has little towns or rivers or old buildings to look at, except east.If you are going east, you drive for hours and hours to discover you have only gone 60 km and McBride is still, sadly, hours away. I do not know what it is about the drive from Prince George to McBride that makes it the longest 280 km in the whole world. I just know that there is a something missing halfway in between the two towns. We need a new community or special attraction (or two) east of town in order to break the never-ending tree tunnel scenery that does not change.
In order to make travelling more convenient to me, I propose that a waterpark is built halfway in between Prince George and the Ancient Forest. Halfway in between Ancient Forest and McBride, I think that weary travellers also deserve a luxury spa including childcare services (for free). That way, once a person arrives in McBride, they will feel refreshed and energized and hopefully the children have fallen asleep in the car rather than stay completely awake for the entire nine hour drive.
I am just saying.
The best idea of all is to locate a series of microbrew pubs with a reasonably priced campground and motel in the no-man's land between Prince George and McBride. Also, build a cell phone tower. No service along that highway is barbaric.
Now do not think that I haven't thought about the potential start-up costs of these new (awesome) tourist attractions. The costs will likely be steep but it is a necessary expense and it will increase traffic in the region. To fund these initiatives, I will gladly donate the salary I was about to claim from the government to aid in the B.C. Wildfire efforts. I was thinking that the B.C. government should hire my husband and I to go on vacation in order to bring the rain to a parched and scorched earth.
It is a superpower and we are surely saving the government money because all of the rain in the province followed us from the Hart in Prince George to the southern interior of the province. The minivan (newly christened "Eeyore") has far less bugs covering the grill than it should for a road trip because of the little black raincloud following us wherever we went.
Good luck everyone on your own summer adventures. I'll see you in the new brewpub along Highway 16. It has a waterpark and it's going to be great.
