Warm and dry in Lillooet
- mikepearsonsafety
- May 22
- 2 min read
May 22, 2023
We’ve moved on from the ”wetcoast” and saw our first bear – a bronzy colour black bear munching berries along the highway before Whistler. Who knows what other animals we’ll come across!
Lucky for us, we stopped at Fraser Cove Campground in Lillooet for the past 2 nights. What an awesome place! It’s right alongside the mighty Fraser River and our spot overlooked the swirling water, with logs going downstream and sometimes coming upstream with the whirlpools. We watched fishermen catch and release several sturgeons.
And we rode our bikes over a wooden bridge built in 1913 to the fabulous A-bun-dance Café. Delicious breakfast croissants.
We rode around town, and read the Declaration of the Lillooet Tribe from May 10, 1911. It was very moving to read what the Lillooet Tribe was asking for from the Federal Government; things any of us would ask for.
Then it was onto golf, at the Sheep Pasture Golf Course. Luckily they don’t like sharing the tee box! We caught up to the golfers ahead of us at one hole and one commented to his buddy about our Tri’ing hoodies. Turns out of one of their uncles had ALS. And when the group behind us caught up with us, the 3 young wildfire fighters eagerly listened to our story and took pictures of the QR code on my hoodie. I sincerely thanked them for their service in helping to keep us safe.
We’re now at Loon Bay RV Campground on Sheridan Lake. We came here about 20 years ago with our kids – the teeter totter is still here, but the saddles are a new addition. We talked to some folks from Prince George and Williams Lake, and they asked about our link to ALS, seeing our hoodies (what else would we be wearing? 😊). A longtime buddy of theirs – who instigated the group of friends camping here annually for over a decade - passed away from ALS last year. They’ll be looking for our truck/trailer in PG next week.
It seems like we are meeting people with a connection to ALS every day.
