Back in town
I’m back from my break in Alberta.
I find it interesting that a lot of people will not do long-distance driving at night. I find driving at night is always easier than driving in the day (as long as you are not doing it in winter) simply because you can drive a lot faster and not have to worry about passing the inevitable slow vehicles on the road.
Even though Google said that the trip from St. Albert to where I live in Chilliwack is 13 hours and 15 minutes, I managed to do the drive in 10 hours and 40 minutes, even including three stops along the way (two for gas and one for bathroom).
At around Blue River, BC it was very cold at night and there was frost on some of the trees. It was also very foggy in certain areas, so much that you could only see three or four strips of yellow line in the middle of the road, so if a moose or something was on the road at the time you had no chance even at a reduced speed.
There was also an impressive lightning storm around Mount Robson Provincial Park.
There was also a deer crossing the street at the junction of Highway 16 and Highway 5 in Jasper National Park. Other than this it was an unremarkable drive.
Now what is rather eerie is that there is an elderly couple that lived in the suburb of Edmonton that we went to and they went for a trip to Chilliwack, but apparently never made it (credits to 89.5 Hawk FM News):
Alberta RCMP are asking for help in finding an elderly couple who left their home in St. Albert for a B.C. vacation
They left July 3 and haven’t been seen since.
Lyle Thomas McCann, 78, Marie Ann McCann, 77, were driving a 1999 green and white Gulf Stream Sun Voyager motorhome and towing a light green Hyundai Tucson.
They were headed for Chilliwack to meet a family member on July 10 but never showed.
Police say their motorhome was last seen in the Edson area on July 5.
The motorhome’ s Alberta licence plate is NBZ 836 while the trailer’s plate is ZPK 289.
… today, this was updated to:
Almost 3,800 people have joined a Facebook group to help an Alberta family find their missing parents.
Marie Ann and Lyle McCann, both in their late 70s, have been missing since July 3rd.
They were driving to Chilliwack to meet up with family members.
Mounties say their disappearance is ”extremely suspicious.”
The burned remains of the couple’s motorhome was found in a remote area near Edmonton, but the SUV they were towing is missing.
The Mounties are conducting an air and ground search.
My hopes that it ends well for this couple, but given the fact that there is a lot of “remote area” near Edmonton it looks like they were robbed.