BC 2022 : 2022-07-26 : Drive to Quesnel, Break Nemo

Accommodation
Type Name Service Provider Confirmation Location Cost Notes Actions
Other Cheryl’s Living Room Quesnel $0.00


Trip Log

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Enroute to Horsefly (actually, Quesnel, as it turned out) today we stopped for looks at Ksan, historic Hazleton and Moricetown.
When we left Moricetown we realized that we were making ourselves pretty late to get all the way to Horsefly today. I messaged Cheryl and she suggested that we stay at her house in Quesnel tonight instead and finish the drive to Horsefly tomorrow. We decided to do just that.

Unfortunately, Cheryl’s driveway is better suited to trucks than to a little Nemo. We high-centered on the driveway ruts and broke the heat shield that protects the gas tank from the heat of the exhaust system. To make our adventure even more fun, Cheryl’s place, being in the boonies and all, has no cell service. It’s wifi only, but since they’re out at the cabin the wifi was switched off. Cheryl gave me instructions for starting it up, but we had trouble getting it working for about 30 minutes, so for a while I thought we had no way to contact the outside world (and a broken car). Finally I realized that I could use Cheryl’s land line at the house to phone her cell and got in touch that way. At the same time as I called her the wifi finally decided to work. Through Cheryl, Bob told us where to find some car ramps and we pilfered a piece of wire from his tool bench. Brent has straightened out the heat shield, attached it back to the car with the pilfered piece of wire, and pinky-swore that it would get us back to Edmonton where we’ll have to get it properly replaced.


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