The hotel in Prince George was really lovely – they even had all sorts of different pillows, including lavender pillows. There’s posh!

Left there at 7am as we had a long drive ahead. The road was much busier than the road from Jasper to Prince George but made good time. The scenery is very different to that around the Rockies – lots of ranches with cows and horses. Did manage to catch sight of bald eagles, ospreys, red tailed hawks and a ground squirrel!

Stopped for breakfast/lunch at about 11am at a really weird restaurant. Just one man cooking and serving and a very small menu. Paul had ham and eggs but the only thing I fancied was peach pie and ice cream. Shame I only had a fork to eat it with – had to eat the ice cream really quickly before it melted!

The journey on the 99 was scenic but winding, up and down and slow. The last couple of hours of the journey seemed to go on for ever – not helped by a woman overtaking three cars (with us at the front) on a mountain pass and narrowly missing a car coming the other way. It was very scary and the driver obviously realised how stupid she’d been as we saw her a few miles up the road out of her car, looking off in the distance and smoking! Hope she doesn’t do it again as we could mm have been killed.

We’re now at The Summit hotel in Whistler and had a lovely surprise when we checked in – we’d been upgraded and are in a one-bedroomed suite. We’ve also found that the main off licence in BC sells Shock Top and when we got back to the hotel there was a present in the room for Paul – some olive oil and speciality salt with a note welcoming us back. Great service.Looking down at the Fraser River from the very scary road!LoungeBedroomKitchen/dinerView from the bedroom balconyUnfortunately had to buy 15 cans!