On to Canada

Trip Start May 06, 2010

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Trip End Oct 14, 2010

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Robbie's Motel

Flag of Canada Cache Creek, British Columbia, Canada
Sunday, June 27, 2010

Since most of the things that I'd like to do in North Cascades National Park would take most of a day or longer and since many of the trails are still snow-covered and since I had a long drive ahead of me, I decided to skip the park and instead take care of some things such as laundry, buying a couple things and having them shipped to me in Alaska and doing some repairs. I didn't get that early of a start, but I made it to Cache Creek, British Columbia before looking for a hotel.

Finding a hotel was a problem. My TracFone won't work in Canada. I had to resort to stopping to check prices. I found something reasonable but they didn't have Internet. I tried my Verizon wireless service. When I started it up I got a message telling me that it could cost me up to $20.48 a megabyte. For comparison the $60 a month for the service gets me up to 5 gigabytes, which works out to 1.2 cents a megabyte. If I go over the 5 gigabytes they charge me 5 cents a megabyte, which is already a ripoff although it's a lot less than the 25 cents a megabyte they used to charge for excess usage. But $20? Are they nuts? If the service was working as well as they say it is capable of working, which I've never experienced, that would be over $10 a minute.

Tomorrow I'll continue driving toward Prince Rupert, BC.