Good old Lillooet and Van city
We got to Lillooet after a quick stop at Marble Canyon sometime in the mid-afternoon. As we pulled into the site at the Seton Dam campground, Barry greeted us happily and Hans and Ruth where already waiting there in front of their Fiat Ducato based motorhome. We then drove back to town and had some tasty Chinese food from the all you can eat buffet. The evening was quite cool, so we didn‘t sit outside for too long before going to bed.
The next day we got into town for some grocery shopping and a quick shower in the fifthwheel at Hans‘ and Ruth‘s home (there are no showers at the free BC hydro campsite). Then Tizi and I took the bikes to Seton Lake beach and dipped our feet in the cold water and laid in the sun for a while. Later, Sheri, Ted, Armand and Ida dropped by as we returned from an unsuccessful attempt at finding some gold in the Cayoosh creek (with just a pan). We did find some firewood though.
Seeing the six friends poke fun at each other as wine was tasted and stories were shared, was a blast. And it was good to see Armand and Ida again after several years!
Nice steaks were had and salads and just a blast of an evening all round. That campsite has yielded so much fun over the years, it‘s always good to come back.
The next morning we took it easy getting up and getting ready to take Geoff to Vancouver as he needed to catch a flight to Ohio for work. After vacating the camp and saying goodbye to everyone, we thought the drive down to Van city would take us about 4 hours. With traffic jams starting already in Chiliwack, it eventually took us 5.5 hours before we dropped Geoff off at the airport. Another half hour later we checked into the hotel and went to have a later dinner at a very nice sushi place in downtown Vancouver.
The following morning we explored Vancouver on foot, Yaletown, Gastown, Chinatown, before we had to get the car out of the parking at 2pm. All that worked out well and it was a beautiful and sunny day, very warm, too.
We then set up camp at the Capilano RV Campground next to Lionsgate bridge and walked across the bridge to Prospect Point and a bit further down into Stanley Park.
We had icecream and walked all the way back to cook a simple meal of leftovers and canned foods, but it was a tasty rice/pasta salad. Then our campsite neighbor came over and asked if I had a working lighterm, which I didn‘t, but I had some matches Nicole had given me, so I gave him a pack and he was very happy about that.
Half an hour later he came back with a big slice of Spring Salmon, fresh from the barbeque, for us to enjoy. Gotta love the friendly Canadians! No friendly gesture ever goes unnoticed. We got into talking of course and it turns out his wife is originally German and has 200 years of blacksmithing tradition in her family and is actually looking for a successor for the family business back in Germany (run by her sister). I‘m sure we can do something for her at the hammer-in.de that I am going to attend at the end of July. The world is such a small place!
They also gave us a lot of good tips on what to do in Vancouver over the coming two days, so now we need to do some scheduling:)










