Spending the night in Fort Nelson. Left Whitehorse Thursday (I think, seems like it can\u2019t have only been two days ago), after Whitehorse the blizzard got worse. Roads were (and still are in some parts) a sheet of ice. It\u2019s hard to believe that a storm can stretch from Tok to Prince George, I guess the arctic has more extreme weather. Spent the night Thursday in Watson Lake, home of the \u2018World Famous\u2019 sign post forest. Outside of Watson Lake we saw a semi that had slid backwards down a hill and jackknifed itself 20 feet into a ditch, it looked a lot more impressive than it sounds. Friday we drove to Liard Hot Springs and spent the night there. The hot springs are beautiful, I HIGHLY recommend them to anyone who\u2019s ever coming through the area. There\u2019s snow everywhere, it\u2019s barely stopped snowing since we left Alaska. Driving has been really slow because of the ice and the mountains, been averaging 35 mph for long stretches.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/ryandecorso.us\/fort-nelson-british-columbia-canada\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Right now I\u2019m in Fort Nelson, the northern terminus of the North American rail system, just on the other side of the Canadian Rockies. It\u2019s Saturday night, and drunk people keep walking by on the sidewalk (or defiantly two feet off of it in the snow, those anarchists). It\u2019s kind of surprising because there\u2019s really not many people who live here, and they all keep heading to A&W. A&W lacks the moniker \u2018All American Food\u2019 here, presumably because Canadians dislike America, and they sell poutine. A dense fog is settling in, visibility has dropped to about a thousand feet in the past hour, and people are starting to settle down (kind of strange considering it\u2019s not even 11:00).<\/p>\n

Hoping to make it to Dawson Creek or further tomorrow. I\u2019d like to be in Vancouver by Wednesday as it\u2019s my favorite city in North America and I\u2019d like to spend a few days there. At least we\u2019re almost out of the hard section of Canada and into the more enjoyable part. Wrote this post kind of fast because my hands are losing dexterity and the ability to touch type from the cold, so any typos or poor phrasing is a result of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spending the night in Fort Nelson. Left Whitehorse Thursday (I think, seems like it can\u2019t have only been two days ago), after Whitehorse the blizzard got worse. Roads were (and still are in some parts) a sheet of ice. It\u2019s hard to believe that a storm can stretch from Tok to Prince George, I guess… Continue reading Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebluevan.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}