Aug 13, 2009
     
Here is one of the log homes probably built from the local log house builders from the area.  This is the beautiful Lac Des Roches on the road to Little Fort.  The trees are riddled with the spruce beetle or I should say were as they are dead now and the beetle has left them already.
     
This was a cute house with the white picket fence around it in Little Fort close to the Hwy 5 and 24 Jct.  Nice barn in the same area and a beautiful farm complete with lake and horses, my childhood dream!  An old barn but not too old to still use, perhaps I should say it is an old style and not so old in age.
         
Behold a sawmill! We didn't see many of those. This is North Thompson River, three minutes down the road is another shot of the river through the burnt trees.  A sign nearby said "Overlanders of 1962  It had been an epic struggle against the wilderness for the gold seekers of Eastern Canada.  They had crossed the Rockies, trekked through pathless forests, and won the swift rapids of the North Thompson River.  The open country now offered hope and safe passage.  Ragged and starved, they reached Kamloops where many became pioneer farmers."
     
This was a beautiful home between Little Fort and Kamloops, close to what my dream home would look like!  I wonder if it can be moved to somewhere in the lower 48? Lol  Next we have the city of Kamloops and beyond is the camp where they housed the firefighters when the forests in the area were burning.  And then the rugged rock clifts on the way to Hope.  We didn't stop in Hope and passed on by Minter Gardens on our way to Sumas, where we were anxious to cross the border into the USA.
      This was a cute barn and house in Sumas, BC. Last stop before entering the good ol' USA.