Forum Discussion
- Keeping sick Americans at home.
- That doesn't sound very closed.
RickLight wrote:
Crazy4silvers wrote:
My wife and I just drove home last week from Idaho to Fairbanks thru Alberta, BC and Yukon. It was very strange as after we got to Whitecourt, AB it seemed like a ghost highway and the further north we got it only got worse. Businesses closed or hanging on by a thread. Traffic was probably half what we normally see in February coming south from Fairbanks. We have done this trip for years.
I don't know the answer but hope we all make it.
Rick
I have to ask; how were the border crossings?
Crossing was uneventful, usual questions and asked about covid symptoms. Additional stop after customs booths for health folks to take our temperatures and explain isolating rules while in Canada.garyhaupt wrote:
See'ing that there is some talk now about extending the closure to end of the year. So far...just scuttlebutt, but....
Gary
Wow Gary. Had not heard that. Let’s hope it just stays as scuttle butt.- See'ing that there is some talk now about extending the closure to end of the year. So far...just scuttlebutt, but....
Gary - Bob806, when Trudeau called Canada's citizens home, I think, back in March, so many of them (including some of my good friends) immediately packed up here in the US and Mexico and headed home to Canada just under Trudeau's first 14-day quarantine. About the same time, the US closed the borders into the US from Mexico for non-essential foreign nationals except for Canadians and asked the question, "Are you on your way home?" Of course, they said yes, but it seems that so many did not go home as per Canadians on Facebook and their forums and as per a 100-mile trip I recently made up to the Myrtle Beach, SC area. There were Quebec license plates all over the place; had a friendly conversation with one full-time RVer, and he decided to store his RV in North Myrtle Beach and rent a houseboat and float up and down the Santee River for a while. My point is if you had joined the Canadians on their way north before the Canadian lockdown, you could have enjoyed boondocking around Canada (and possibly with your Parks Canada card; I enjoy using mine). Kind of wished I had done that this year; I can tell the Canadians who came up from Mexico are really enjoying themselves and have packed in cases of beer for their rented houseboat.
Crazy4silvers wrote:
My wife and I just drove home last week from Idaho to Fairbanks thru Alberta, BC and Yukon. It was very strange as after we got to Whitecourt, AB it seemed like a ghost highway and the further north we got it only got worse. Businesses closed or hanging on by a thread. Traffic was probably half what we normally see in February coming south from Fairbanks. We have done this trip for years.
I don't know the answer but hope we all make it.
Rick
I have to ask; how were the border crossings?- Just got an e mail from Parks Canada. Our reservations at Fundy NP and Cape Breton NP have been canceled.
I spent a lot o time planning a 3 week trip. Going to save it for possibly next year. Dam Crazy4silvers wrote:
My wife and I just drove home last week from Idaho to Fairbanks thru Alberta, BC and Yukon. It was very strange as after we got to Whitecourt, AB it seemed like a ghost highway and the further north we got it only got worse. Businesses closed or hanging on by a thread. Traffic was probably half what we normally see in February coming south from Fairbanks. We have done this trip for years.
I don't know the answer but hope we all make it.
Rick
Heard from friends in the Yukon who recently did the Cassiar route. Dead slow. However. BC is probably entering phase 3 next week which will free up provincial travel. The BC goverment has some funds earmarked for B.C. tourism which should help. We are planning a few days in Barkerville once the health minister blesses it. Hoping to introduce the bed and breakfast we are staying at to the idea of the installation of a Tesla destination charger. They are kind of off the beaten track a bit.
