Well, we did not get to travel the 100+KM of the Back Road today ( Sunday) as planned. Weather forecast was calling for severe T-storm warnings. And I thought we left those behind on the prairies!
Rather than take the chance of being caught in a potential mud-slide or caught in high water run off, we decided to cancel the back road trip.
Instead we headed back towards Barkerville to check out some other historic sites. Our first stop was at Cottonwood House which is a preserved roadhouse east of Quesnel. Very interesting place! Has cabins for rent as well as one miners cabin without modern conveniences. The general store had a great little restaurant with reasonably priced food. Photos of Cottonwood are being posted on a Picasa gallery which you will find on the left hand side of this screen. I'll be posting photos this way from now on. Got the suggestion from a MOC (Montana Owners Club) member, Mrs. Country Guy. Twenty some odd pics there now and more later.
From Cottonwood house we moved on to the ghost town of Stanley. All that remains is the cemetery and one old building that was a hotel. Interesting graveyard. Surrounded by white picket fences and mostly wooden markers. There are several places where the graves have been dug up leaving indentations in the ground. This is where members of the Chinese community in Stanley were buried. Later the Tong society had the bones dug up and sent back to China so they could be interned with their ancestors.
Carried on to Wells. Not overly impressed. Had been told by a local that the old hippies had taken over the town. I think they were right. A few good artists, lots of junky properties for sale. A few of the houses were brightly painted. I think there must have been a sale on shiny aluminum roofing panels, as every second house had a new roof. Stopped at the museum and after a donation spent all of 20 minutes looking at the material on display in great detail. That was it!
Headed back to Quesnel and called it a day around 4 PM.
N. played hide and seek with a small moose trying to get a clear picture without much success. If you look real close you will see him staring at her.
Quote for the day:
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
- Nicholas Butler
Cheers
P & N
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