Day 33: Cameron Lake Campground - Prince George

I am woken up early at 6am by the guy next site warming up the engine of his pickup (with a huge trailer).

So I decide to start early too and pack up. Although it is almost a crime, since I have not payed for the night (no self registration on this site), but on the other hand, the place is not so great, because it's quite noisy from the nearby road even in the night.

The morning is still quite chilly and the smoke accompanies me since days now.

When I'm arriving at the junction to Mackenzie River, I fuel up and check if I there's internet. I realize that there is a Tourist Information opposite side of the junction, which I then immediately visit, an old railway car, converted to an Information Center.

The employee Linnea welcomes me warmly and is doing her best. I get coffee, can use the Wifi and charge my computer and later also the power bank.

I have to download data for work and to answer some emails. The most important thing is to call Air Canada Cargo, because my second mail is also still not answered. This time I book the shipping back by phone. Fortunately, I am allowed to make calls from the Tourist Information Landline and Linnea also helps me in communicating by giving some information, because without the English spelling alphabet, the bad connection will not work. I don't know the spelling alphabet in English with the "Alpha ... Zulu" (by the way, I even don't know the German one). The booking works, I get a confirmation email. And Linnea helps me to find a mall in Prince George, where I can ask for charging my SIM card.

When I tell Linnea that Brigitte has a flight from Vancouver to Prince George tomorrow, she calls a colleague in Prince George to find out if there are flights cancelled, because at noon it was pretty dark in Prince George. Fortunately, no flights are cancelled and tomorrow condition should be better.

To return a little of the friendliness of Linnea, I take some photos of a cigarette burn in the parking lot in front of the info, about which she is quite upset. There are so many wildfires in Canada, and then people throw away their cigarettes without caring about them. How stupid do you have to be?

Too bad that I do not have time to enter the valley, which I once had in my original planning.

After I've talked to two German girls who are traveling for a longer trip with a van they bought, I'm continue my way to Prince George after a two hours break here.

In Prince George can add on some credit to my mobile phone in the phone shop, so I can use it for another month.

I decide for a detour to the airport just to check, that all flights are on schedule, which they are.

After some research, I decide for private campground with Wifi and hot showers close to the city.

Then I ride back to town to buy some supplies. Instead of going out to eat, I opt for freshly made sushi from the supermarket, which is a real treat in terms of size and supply compared to the small towns in the north of the country.

I just get back to the campground in time to make a wakeup call to Brigitte.