Saturday, August 1, 2009

The Americans are coming, the Americans are coming....

Ron's leaving today - and we're going to miss him! He's asked me to talk a bit about the history of this place so here it is. Originally a homestead, the property had the Levelton house and barn on it. This is what it looked like about the mid '70's.

When we bought it in 1998,

Bella Coola Day Four

The road is open so off I go.
On the downhill run now
I got some great pictures to post but they will probably have to wait until I get home.
This blog will be under refinement for a month I guess as I get put in all the videos and maps and such.
So keep checking back for old posts with new stuff

OOPS

Or so I thought
The wind came up yesterday afternoon and they closed it down again... it remains closed.
They will probably open it up for a pilot car caravan this AM and close it down again if the wind comes up so I am getting ready...

More bad news

We had thunder storms come in last night and started more fires so now it looks like there are four or five fires on the road out of here
So here I sit... again

Here is a map of BC roads

Click on Bella Coola
It shows which roads are closed and and what areas.
It is 250 miles out of here so any dealy just screws it up big time