Day 49- Stewart

 July 30

Rainey Creek Campground

I think I'm over driving.  Or maybe it's just that we are on the homeward stretch.  I'm also starting to feel all the things I'll need to do as soon as we get home.  I started getting the pain in my hip and I have not felt it since the second day of the trip.  I have a feeling it's stress related.  Makes for a long uncomfortable drive.

The girls start school the Friday after we get back.  Monday will be an open house for Libby at her new school.  Davan has awards night for swim.  I have no school stuff yet, obviously.  Plus all the broken stuff to fix at work along with all the feed I'll have to make.

Also the rear camera and brakes not working are bothering me as well.  

We got going at a decent time this morning.  The Cassier Highway is in pretty good shape.  Most of it is rough chip seal, but does not have nearly the potholes as the Alcan did.  

It was partly cloudy today and every cloud was a rain cloud.  So we were in and out of showers all day long.  

We have not seen much wildlife lately.  Davan said she saw a bear in the ditch yesterday and Libby said she saw a moose in the woods today.  We all saw a black bear as it ran across the road in front of us this afternoon.  The guy that checked us in tonight said there is a grizzly and her cubs that wander the campground but they all stay away from people.  We didn't see them tonight though.  

We were flanked by lakes on either side of the road for much of the day.  Stewart is surrounded by mountains.  The campground is at the base of one.  You look up all you see is rock.  In fact it looked like  there was a rock slide at the back of the campground years ago.  

At check in we were told about the places to eat in town.  One was a Mexican place that we were told was excellent.  The other was a pizza place.   Unfortunately the Mexican place was closed so we went to get pizza.  Unfortunately it was not good.  The first came out burnt.  The second was fine but they had to make more dough and it obviously didn't have time to rise and I'm not sure if it was on purpose or not but the was little to no sauce.   Luckily they comped one since they had to redo them.  

When we got back the girls went in to watch a movie and I tried to troubleshoot the brakes a bit.  I didn't make any headway.