On the Road Again with Verna

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We finally made it to Ruth and Bill’s. Bill met us on the road, as he said he would and escorted us to the house. We had a great time there, played a lot of bridge and toured the area in his rebuilt 1939 car. I should mention, this is where our cameras came out and we managed to actually take pictures of some people. This was good, otherwise we would have ended up with numerous pictures of wheat fields, which would have gone nicely with my pictures of stunted trees!

After a very pleasant visit with Ruth and Bill, we took off from their house and made our way to the Yellowhead Highway and Prince George; Verna to visit her brother, and me to visit my sister-in-law. The only unplanned incident we had on the way to Prince George was the matter of gas. We followed one of those signs that say ‘Gas Ahead’. I might suggest to our readers, that when you see a sign that says ‘Gas Ahead’, unless you can actually see the garage, don’t go. I thought at the time we didn’t have much choice, but I since realized that we probably had enough gas for another one hundred miles.

Off we went following the signs along a side road. We seemed to travel for an eternity until we finally saw a house with a sign that said ‘GAS’. There were no pumps in sight, or people, so we drove round the back of the house. A young girl came out and directed us to where the one pump was. This was Alberta, so maybe you can have your own gas pump!

With a full tank of gas, we left the gas ‘house’ and instead of turning back the way we came we just carried on into unknown territory. Again, it was another long journey until we came to a house where a man and a lady were working in their yard. I stopped the car and asked the fellow if he could tell us how to get back on the Highway. He went into a lot of turn here, go half a mile, turn left etc. Finally, frustrated, his wife came over to us and said “Don’t listen to him, he will only get you lost. Men don’t understand how woman think”. So she told him to get into the car and lead us back on to the highway, and he did. We really liked that lady.

The rest of the trip was uneventful but very funny. However, this involved relatives so we won’t go into that; you’ll just have to take my word that it was funny.

Will tell you about our trip to Penticton next time.

Biddy Jean